This is an analysis of the poem Periodicity that begins with:
My friend declares
Being woman and virgin she ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbbbXccaddceeaeeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 10101101 1101010000 1101 011101 1011000100 1111 010101 1111010011 1011 110001 0101010111 1111 010001 01010011011 1011 110101 00111100101 1111 110101 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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