This is an analysis of the poem Woman Enough that begins with:

Because my grandmother's hours
were apple cakes baking,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbabcad cXeedfcad XXgaaXfhiX cdejgh eeajadgaaXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,10,6,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111010 010110 11100 10100 111 010000100 1111011 1101110 111011 0111010 010001 001010 01110001010 101101011 111110 100101 11011110 111100 111001 0101001 11101 01101 10110 1010 010110 1001 1111101 10101011 1110101 11110110 11011010 1111 1111 0111 1111110 01001110 1110 01011 101010101 011111010 10010010 0111 11011100 0010011 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, wish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same words because, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Woman Enough;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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