This is an analysis of the poem Coming Close that begins with:
Take this quiet woman, she has been
standing before a polishing wheel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdacecfaghihdejgiidchfbecXifiXajdddfXhde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110 100101001 110110111 101001111 01101010 01001111 011101010 111001011 01101101 0100110011 010101101 011101001 100101111 010010011 011100111 011111110 01111111 110010010 010001111 001011101 101010101 101111010 110001011 0100010101 11111101 100011110 1110010001 1101011010 1011101001 011001111 100101101010 11101011010 01000110111 01111001011 011111101 11001001110 1111011 11001011 11101111001 1001000101 101011101 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1595
- Average number of words per stanza: 307
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, of, why, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Coming Close;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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