This is an analysis of the poem The Faces Of Our Women that begins with:
Mary didn't give birth to God.
Mary isn't the mother of God....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXbbabcdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10101101 100001001 100110011010 1011001 0101101 1110011000101000 11101011011111 0100110101011 111110111 111010011011 1111010001010 10110101 1010101101001011 101101111011 10010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mary, our, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mary, that's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).
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