This is an analysis of the poem No More And No Less that begins with:

I am a woman. No more and no less
I live my life as it is...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXacdgcXeaXbA hibXjdejdkeA hflgXXlfabA bfjmdciA kmmhheXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,12,11,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1101011111 1111100 111 11111011 0011010101 111111 100001 1111001 001001 0101001 111011 11011111 10110 1101010100 10110010010 01100101 101010100 1101011111 010101110 0101100 0101101011 101111110001010 11111101111 1111101 101 1011001010101 110011101101 1111011010 111101101 1101011111 1001010 011111 11001111 1101011 0010111010 0100100101 11101011 00111111 01000100101 11110011 1101011111 111111 111111101 111010111 11010101000110010 1111110101 111101 1010 1101011111 1110 00110010 110111 1 11 11010 11 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, no, as, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines string is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word less at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of No More And No Less;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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