This is an analysis of the poem A High-Toned Old Christian Woman that begins with:

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddXXXXbdaXXbXaXdddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10000011010 10101110100 1001110101 0100010001 1101010011 10101001111 00101110101 1001011001 0101011100 10011010111 0100010001 1011011111 1011110101 1110010101 1101010011 1011010001 1011000001 111111011 1101101001 010010010101 0011011101 1110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 914
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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.

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

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