This is an analysis of the poem The Scrub-Woman that begins with:
Time has placed his careful insult
Upon your body....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddeefXcccgXcbbbdhiegccXeicbahejhbakckcjdfdbaXjafb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 01110 01010111 0101101111 10101110 10001010 1101 11010111 1001011 1111011 11010010101 1111100100010 1110010010 010101111 1 111011 1101110100 10101100 001110100 00111001 01111011 1010010 010111 001010 1010101010 1011111 01010110101 000100001 111110101 101110 00100100 11110010 0111101 0100100100010 1010011 100111011 110100100 100101 0101010 101011 1101010 11011010 1001101 01010110010 1111111 1011010 10101010 110010100 1111111 10110001 111010101 0100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 817
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chastity is repeated).
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