This is an analysis of the poem The Woman In The Ordinary that begins with:
The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl
is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXbcdceeXdcaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01000101010111 010011101 11101110001 101001010101 01000101001 110111 1111111110 01000101 110000010 01011101 010110011 1101010101 1111010110 001010010100110 01001001011 0100101110110 101001001 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, like are repeated.
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