This is an analysis of the poem Mourning Women that begins with:

All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight,
Crouching together in the jolting cart, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa bbXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010101 1001000101 1111110101 0101000101 010101001 11011100111 10110001001 1100010001 1101011101 0111000101 1111011011 1101010101 1101110101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Mourning Women;
  • central theme;
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