This is an analysis of the poem Garment Girls that begins with:

The garment girls, walking together,
look like hundreds of birds flying in Bangladesh's sky....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cddd acee XddXcXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010110010 11100110010101 101010011111 1111100110110001 10110000110 10011 0110101101011010 111010011111 01010110111 10111110111110101 11101101 110100101 1000010111 100010110101011 0101010000111 1100101100011 01011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; girls is repeated.

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