This is an analysis of the poem The Woman that begins with:

WITH her fair face she made my heaven,
Beneath whose stars and moon and sun... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaababcdcdaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001111110 01111111 110101010 11111101 111111010 11110101 110111010 11011101 110110010 10010111 010011010 10000101 111101010 11011101 010101110 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, as, it are repeated.

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  • summary of The Woman;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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