This is an analysis of the poem A Man Meets A Woman In The Street that begins with:
Under the separated leaves of shade
Of the gingko, that old tree ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaccdXeXcfegchXiXXXjkja bXdXialbXXkXmfXXkkkXX lhbbXlkXbdXhihhikXndjgbkn lladXlnmXmhajiacnbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,21,25,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 0010111 11010010001 1011010101 11010100111 01001110101 1001010101 0101011101 1011010010 111011101010 01001101100 10110001 00100111011111 110001111111 111010111011 1010010111001 1000011101110 0101011110001 001100010001 010001 01001101110 110110001 110101101101 111010010100 101101111101 110110101 010011 001110011 110111101111 010 10001 1011010011111 10100100100010 01010111101 010001010 101111101011 1111011100 10010111010 1011011101010 1100100011 1100101010 010001010010 010101001000100 0011010100010100 101001001000101000 1001001010000 110001110101 111010101010 101111100010 11101110101 1111100101 111111010100 0101011110110 0011001000100 1010010 1101 1100111111 010 11011111 1111111100 0100011101 001010110111 11000010000 110111110 111010101101110 0111011111 11111110111 110011000111 1101011011 11011001111 101010 10001 110101011110 11110010110 010011101 11100110101 110100101011 100 011010011 0011010100101 1111111011101 10111110111 01101110010 1101111011 0111101110011 1111101110001 1011010111010 110100101010 0101011111 0111010101 100111010100 10011101 0011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1022
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, mcgillivray, to, mcgillicuddy, i, day, birds, my, someone, wish are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words someone, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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