This is an analysis of the poem Necessitas--Vis--Libertas! that begins with:
A tall, bony old woman, with iron face and dull, fixed look, moves with
long strides, and, with an arm dry as a stick, pushes before her another...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XaX XXbX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101100101111110 111011110110010010 10 010011010011001000 101001011101111001 100100111 010111111011111 10010110110101101 11001111011111001 1110111 10001100 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, woman, her, to are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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