This is an analysis of the poem Women's Suffrage that begins with:
Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise
And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc cbdd aaaa eeff ffgg aagg hhgg bbaa ffff aaii ffff dXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111011001 1010100100100001010011 11101101111 1010110101100 1101001110101100 00101001001011 1011100101001 11100101110001 10101101010111 1100011110011 11011011001 10011001101001 10101011001010 11111001010 1110101001101 0111010010100111 0101010111110011 10111101001 11101010101 110010101001111101 11101010101010011 101110001011001 1100010100010100100 11011010001011001 11101010101100010010 110100001010 01011001001111 1010001001011 101101000011 011010100011111 01110101010011 10010111001 11010100101001 10101110111001 110010101001 110001101010101 1111101000101 1010000101010011 11001011011 101010100110110 1111111 011011101 0010100011111 1100100101 11111101101 111111111 1111011101 11010101001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, have, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, therefore are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines liberty is repeated).
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