This is an analysis of the poem The Old Maid that begins with:
I saw her in a Broadway car,
The woman I might grow to be; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBA XcXc cdXdXBAaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 01011100 11110110 11110001 01111111 11010111 01010111 11110101 01010111 10111101 01110001 100010111 11110110 11110001 01010001 01011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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