This is an analysis of the poem Female Author that begins with:
All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:
Favored (while suddenly the rains begin...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111111001001 1011000101 01010111101 110101001001 1110100110 101001101 11010101010 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0100010001 1101010001 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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