This is an analysis of the poem Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain that begins with:
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain,
Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcXcd deeddXXdfafafa ghXggXhgdfdfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011101 10010111010 011101001010 0111010001 1011010101 101011101110 101110100010 1101111101 11111111110 10110001101 11010001010 1101000100 01011101010 1101111101 11110011101 1101111101 1111010101 101110111 01110101101 011101011000 1001010111 0101001101 1111110101 11110110111 11110101111 1101100001 1101010101 0101000101 111100111010 1101010101 1101011111 11010100110 11011001010 0101110110 110001011001 011100110110 1101010111 0111110101 0111010011 11101001101 01010111101 110110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, who, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word e'en is repeated.
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