This is an analysis of the poem Why She Writes Of Her Love that begins with:
~ with submissive indrawn breath on nights that smell of freshcut red, she writes of a love to which her language denied even words ~
love, he...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXacbd cXcedXXX cffeXXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001010111110101110010101001101 111100101 1101101001 1001111 111110101 1010101011 001110010110 11001010010 110101110101 1000101000111 10111111 011010001110 10101100101 01001101001 100011100 011101111110 10101100101 0100101011 010010101 011011001010 1100110011010110 110011001010 01110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, or, with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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