This is an analysis of the poem Lot's Wife that begins with:
They say I looked back out of curiosity.
But I could have had other reasons....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXdefdbecghifXbjdikleXlihfXakgXdiebbejia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111010100 111111010 111101101 1001101101 11101011010101 011011 001001010111 110111101 0010100001 101010 110101011101 1110001010010011 11101110 00100010010 111101101 11111010111 1001111 10111010 101001101100101 110101100100110 11101010 0101111001 10011011 1101010101 0111110111 010111010001010 110001001001101 111010 01011001 111110101001 111110100 011001111011011 010101111011 0101011100101 0111111 11111 111110 011010010 1001010111 11011101101 1001111111110 0110100111010 01001110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1746
- Average number of words per stanza: 320
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, and, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, it, it's are repeated.
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