This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Women that begins with:
i need to know their names
those women i would have walked with...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 11011110 100011101 1011101 1101011111 100110101 1111111010 1000111111 1110110 101011111 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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