This is an analysis of the poem To Women that begins with:
Your hearts are lifted up, your hearts
That have foreknown the utter price.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa Xbcb dded Xede bccX efcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 111000101 11110101 01010101 11110101 10010111 10010101 11010101 11011101 110011101 11010111 111010111 11011101 11010101 11100001 11010101 01010001 01000111 11111101 1100100100 01111111 01010111 10010101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your, hearts, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your are repeated.
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- summary of To Women;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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