This is an analysis of the poem I Do Not Want To Be Your Weeping Woman that begins with:
I do not want to be your weeping woman
holding you to me with a chain of grief....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AX bb bc bc bX bX AXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110011010 1010100101 1111001010110 1010110100010 11110011010 10101101010 1011101111110 11100101010 11110011010 1101011011010 0101101110010 1011011001110 11110011010 1010100101 11110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, your, you, me 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.
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