This is an analysis of the poem Prostitute that begins with:
Who calls you a prostitute, Mother?
Who spits at you? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdeffagc XXcXhidccXbXXjXXge khfdeffcXgfchbX gchfcccddXi jddk fXcXaXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,18,15,11,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110 1111 011010111 11110 11101 111100100 01110110 111110011 110000101110 11001 1100010010 011010 1010100 0101010 10100 1110100010 101010101 1000100 110010 1001010 110010 11001 10001 111001010 0110110 011000 101010010100 0010001100010010 010100 1100011 10110010 10010010 1000101 10001000100 10111010 11010100 0111101001 1111001010 100101 0110101000001 01001101 0101101 10011011 010010 11010 1100001011 111000001 001101110 1100011010 00101 101001001010 11101 1101111 111110010 10010 100101 1111011 11101011 11111 11001010 1110001100000 11000010 10010110100100000 1001011010 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you, of, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, as, none, if, and are repeated.
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