This is an analysis of the poem On Woman that begins with:

MAY God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacaddddefefghhhaiaigbgbeaeababbgbgafaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 111101 0111011 010001 1101111 100111 110001 0100101 110001 010101 110011 110001 110111 111101 110101 110101 1101011 1001010 0100010 1001010 110111 101101 101101 111111 111111 111111 010111 111101 1100101 01001 111101 110101 011111 1111111 0111101 110011 110011 101101 100101 1101011 011001 111100 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 223
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, when are repeated.

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  • summary of On Woman;
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