This is an analysis of the poem Beast, Book, Body that begins with:
I was sick of being a woman,
sick of the pain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcdebda dadacf dgbXhhf idjbaX feidXad gjgXdiXbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,7,6,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010 1001 001000101 111000 1000100 1100010011 11100 101100 100100101 0101 011 00110 1110 01001 0111 1010 101101 11011 010110 1100100 1110 1001 00010 1101 11 11011 1111 010 1011011 1110 0010110 11110 1010 111 0010 10101 11 111 11 010010 100010 010 01101010 1011 011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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