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.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of I Do Not Want To Be Your Weeping Woman;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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