This is an analysis of the poem To Be Free Of Not Having Children that begins with:
My mother would have my sister and I...
As kids, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc adcebd fecgh dijbkkd dhgjbXdXhgcc aXiXd hjaafc iiad ekXeiXkk eedfd eccebeg chcch beXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,7,12,5,6,4,8,5,7,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011 11 01110111 1100111100 111101 101100101001 111111 101010 10110111 1101110110 111010 111011001 111111010111 111101 10100111 100 110111 111010010 1111101110 10011011 101111 1011011110 100 10111 011001111011 111001101010 1101101 1011111111 111010101 010111 0101010101 111110101101 1101111 011111110 111110101 01110011 111101111010 10001101 110100101 101100010100 110 110011 010101 0111100 1100100100 11111111100100 01011 01 11101110110 101110 10011110101 11010011 110 10100 1000110 1 1101010 1110100111010 110101 110110101 110001100 10101101101 110111010 110101101 011111111 001011010 111111111 010010101010 0111010 10101101 10001 11101101 11100011 1 1111010 1111111110 010011100 11111 01010011111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, we, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
The author used the same words disciplined, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Be Free Of Not Having Children;
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