This is an analysis of the poem She that begins with:

I know her, her bitter silence,
Her tiredness of her words and cries,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca deXe fdfd abbb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11001010 010000111 100101010 01010001 01010010 10010001 010101110 11011110 0110111010 11010111 110101010 11110001 101101010 1111111 110111110 000100101 010101110 11010001 011111011 11010001 01011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her, of, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of She;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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