This is an analysis of the poem Dead Woman Walking that begins with:
i am a dead woman walking asylum corridors,
with faltering step, with felted, flying hair, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacde fgheicfbb idXh g XiaXbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,4,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010010100 01001010101 0101101101 011110101 0100111001010 011101001 11101100 100010101 1001011110101 01111111010 1110110101001 0101011001 01001101010100 1010010101011 110111101 001001101 011001010 11010011101 0111101111 110111111111101 11010101001110 1010010110101 1111011011110 111111110 1100111 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, i, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, like, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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