This is an analysis of the poem The World Wants Women that begins with:

The world wants women, brave, reliant, true,
Such as will help the common good along,—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedefgfghihijdjdkikXihih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 1101010001 1001110101 0101110101 1001110101 1101111101 1000110101 0101110101 0111010111 1100110111 1111010001 11010001000 1001110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 01110101001 1101011101 111110001 0101010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101011101 0100011101 0111010101 1001010101 1001010101 1111010101 1111010101 0101010111 1011010101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 250
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, that are repeated.

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

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