This is an analysis of the poem To A Childless Woman that begins with:
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do...
I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbcc cdede fdfd beeXagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101011111 1101010101011 110011110011 111111001111 010101110111 110111010101 10010010100111 111111110101 100111011101 110111110011 101111110101 110111110101 111001011101 0100101010101 111111110001 010100110101 1011011111110 100111010101 101101111101 1101110111100 0101010110011 1111110111111 1011010111011 111111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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