This is an analysis of the poem From The Women At Point Sur that begins with:

XII
Here were new idols again to praise him; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a Xb c de f X c Xd e Xc X cX c fe X ff a Xb X Xa aXfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011001011 110011111110101 11101010111 111111011101010 11101111111101 10110110110 0110111010 1001001010110 101010010 010101000011001 10101001 11010100110 10101110110101 101110010110 101001011100011 11001101011001 01101011010100 0010001001010 110110110011011 11010 1110101011010 111100101110011 11111110011 1010110110101 11101101101000 110100100100010 01011001001 1101100101000111 1110110111 110100101011 0101111111111 110010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i, my, of, one, in are repeated.

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

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