This is an analysis of the poem Any Woman that begins with:
I am the pillars of the house;
The keystone of the arch am I....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX abab cdcd efef ghgh eiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 01100111 11011111 110101100 110100101 11010001 11011101 11010101 11010111 11110101 01110101 11010101 110111010 01000101 110101110 11110100 11010101 11010111 11010111 11010011 111101110 11010111 1101010010 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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