This is an analysis of the poem Walking Around after Neruda that begins with:

It happens that I am tired of being a woman.
It happens that I cannot walk past country clubs...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXc bdeX ebA eeXaX aXfXe ggbc dXbX bbebeXfXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,5,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011110010010 010111011101 110001010001 1010111000010 10101110110 11111110 11100111100101 11001111 01011110011111 11101110 01011110010010 10101010 01111010101 01011111 10011011 100100101 11110110001 01001001010 111100101110 101111001 01101 11110100100 01001111110 0100110 10100101011 0110101 0110111 01001101 1101011011 1011111101 11001110010 1010110 1111110 1100011 011100 11010110 0101101 000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; my, it, and, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, to, and are repeated.

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