This is an analysis of the poem A Woman's Mood that begins with:

I THINK to-night I could bear it all,
Even the arrow that cleft the core,—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacdbdbecec fefebdbd ababfgfg hfhfdcdX egegabab dXdXgfgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110111101 100101101 1110111111 11101100101 0011110111 1010011101 111110111 0110100101 1110100111 1111100111 1110100101 1000110101 1101001101 110100111 1110100111 1010010101 1110111101 011101101 011011101 1010100101 0100111101 1011111101 1100111111 111111101 101110101 110110101 110110111 10111101001 011100101 0010100101 011010101 1011101101 010100101 111100101 1100101101 0010110101 1110010111 1100101111 1100100101 110010100 1111011101 111100101 11101101101 111100101 111010111 011111101 110100110 11101001001 010110101 0010100101 1010100101 1010101101 010101101 111101101 1110111101 111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 394
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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