This is an analysis of the poem Phenomenal Woman that begins with:
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaCadXdEfEC baegacaCaXhhEfEC icjjfbcCXkdkE fEC iihiXiCagigefEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,16,13,3,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011101 0111101010101 1111010 110101 11 0001011 01011 01011 01011 0010 01000 010010 11 110001 111111 1001 01011 11111 111011 010101 11 0010011 101011 01011 101011 0010 01000 010010 11 101110 11101 1111 1111 110100 111010 111111 11 0001011 01011 01011 01011 0010 01000 010010 11 11101 111111 1111101 110111 111110 010111 11 0001011 01011 01011 01011 00010 01000 010010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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