This is an analysis of the poem I Am the Woman that begins with:
I am the Woman, ark of the law and its breaker,
Who chastened her steps and taught her knees to be meek,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabb aaaacXcaXdededfde efX ghghddeeiijjjj eXXhakallkXjjdXdmXmXmamanhj jhnjddjXeff eekgkgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,17,3,14,27,11,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011010 110011101001 101100111001 10000111100010 1111001111101 1101010101001001 1111010010010 1011001000110 010111010110 1001011011010 111101101111 11001110010010 111011111111 110100101110 0110010111001111 11010101 11001001001 10101100101 1101001 111111111 011101101001 111100101 10110111011 0001011001 111110101011001 111101011001001 111001001111 11011010111001 011011011111001 10011111011011 100011100100 1010010101001 11011100101100111 111101011111101 10101011011111 110100111111 11011101011001 111101011001 111110101011001 111011010111101001 11100100101 11100100101011 10100111111 1101001001101 01110010010010 1010100101101 1011001001010 110101011001 11110100101 1101010101011 11110101010101011 1011010111011 111001 111110110111 11101101110 1111011 10010100100 10011110100010 1111110011010100 1001110101001010 100111001 10111010110010 11110100100 111111001010 1101101101101 1111011101101 1101101001111 011010101111 0101001001001 01011111001 111101101110 0100100101001 11111111101 1011011111110 10010111101 10110101101 101101101001 10011010110101001 11010100111010100 10100101101001010 111111010010111 0111010011110101 1001110100101011 1001111110101111 11110110011010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, not, thou, i, him, my, mother, with, ', in, to, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, 'which, to, 'open are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 it is repeated).
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