This is an analysis of the poem In Celebration Of My Uterus that begins with:

Everyone in me is a bird.
I am beating all my wings. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccXcddef CGgcXXfbh ifbcfcchfeadjjckcaafbecc CGibdCXbbCbCbdkdch
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,24,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101001 1110111 1100111 1101 11100101010 1111 111011010 1101 11101011 1111 11 01010001011 1001001011 10010101001 11111101 0110011 1010101101 01001001 101 11101 1001101010 000110100111 1010101011100 00001111101 11100010 01101111011 101011001000 1000110010001 101001001001 101101001 101011010 10100100101010 1010010010 10101101010 10100111110 101010100010 1010101011 101001001 10101010001 00100110110 10111110111 1001011111 101 11 01010001011 11100111 111101111 1110110100 01011 1110010010011 110100100100100 111101010 01011 111101010 01011 1010101 111 1010 1010 1001 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, you, of, i, and, hello, one, in, her, me, let, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, one, let, for are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines am is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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  • summary of In Celebration Of My Uterus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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