This is an analysis of the poem What Are Big Girls Made Of? that begins with:
The construction of a woman:
a woman is not made of flesh ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcaddXefg hifiXfeXhg ajjXffdfegkijlejhhmmbA alkhfgjlXdjA glecebhalfl XlldhlhkahaXdhddha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,22,12,11,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100010 01001101 01110 10111111011 10101010101 10010101101 10001 011001001010 1101110101 0111100011 0011110010 1100011101 10011111 11110100101 11111011 111010111 11011001000010 1101100101 1110101001 0101011 100010010 11100110 101001100 1000010010 1001011100 10101111 1110101 101010101 0111111 10110001 01010010010 101110 110010111 110010110 101001010 10101001 10101010 0011011 010011101 1110111101 100101001 10101001001 010101 10100111101010 1101010 11101110010 101000101 1100111 1100011110 0100010010 111010 1011011 11010100101 101110 010101 0111010010 11101110 1101111 01110111 11000111 01110101 1111111 101011010 001111111 11011 0101010 0101111101 01011101 1101010011 010101111011 011011 111101011 111101110 0111010010 1111011001 1001011 011101011 10101001 0111011010 100010 1001 100101 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, woman, never, they, as, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, a, they, if, why are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words desire, pain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase century connects the lines.
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- summary of What Are Big Girls Made Of?;
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