This is an analysis of the poem Not Born Or Fed From A Shallow Womb that begins with:
Not born or fed,
From a shallow womb! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXb acbcc ccaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111 00101 1111001 1101 0100010 1111101 10100101101 10101001011010 101000100 111110001 110011100 1110111 11101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my is repeated.
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