This is an analysis of the poem Harp Song Of The Dane Women that begins with:
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAA bbb ccc bbb ddd ddd eeeXaAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011010 1011010110 0100111010 111101010 111111010 1011101110 111111011 10111001011 1101101111 110101010 1011101110 1011011110 10011011010 1101001010 11111001010 10111111010 010011010010 01011110010 1111101110 10101111010 01111101010 1101011010 1011010110 0100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in, you are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sicken connects the lines.
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