This is an analysis of the poem Thus, Woman, Principle Of Life, Speaker Of The Ideal that begins with:

Would you see
The dark form of the sun...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXf bghihjjdeg kXXkXfXgl afhe jXXchbfle lfbbeglXllkXhaX XhjdlkggXjX igekXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,9,4,9,15,11,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 011001 01101 101010 10101101 010100100 01011110 100101 1010001 0010010 1101101 110110010001 11101 01111 101001 00111100 1101010 10101011 010011 0101010 01001 100 0101110 0101010 10101001 0010 01010110101 011110 110001 11100 011110100111 010111 1110000 10111001 1101101101 1110110 11010 11111 1 0001 110110 0101010 1101 000101001 1010110 011000100101 110101010 0110101001001 01011001001 01001 000100 1001 0011010101001 00110011 011000 0110011 1001111 0010101 101000 0010110 1000010 1010100 1101101 0101 11011000 110101 11110 10110100 101101011 1110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, all, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, of, between, no, all, a, this are repeated.

    The author used the same words between, this, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Thus, Woman, Principle Of Life, Speaker Of The Ideal;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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