This is an analysis of the poem Women Raising Their Boys that begins with:
Women raising their boys,
And alone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbacb Xbddbebd ABdXd aBdbaaa dXbXebXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 101 10001010 01000010 00100 00111 11010101 00101111 10101 011101 10101010 000101010 100010010 011010001101 101011 101 0101001 101010 011011011 0101011 101 1011101001 0110010011 1110010 010111010 011001 1 011 111011 001110100 011100010 01001 101011 1101 10010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, will, than are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fathers is repeated).
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