This is an analysis of the poem Liberated Lady 1999 that begins with:

She’s a liberated lady and she’s lookin’ out for herself.
And she don’t need your protection, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcd eebefggga hIID cXca jfjf aXXfXhIID
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101011101101 11111010 1111111 10110111010 11011111 111110101010 111110101110101 101110111110101 11101001110 10101 11101111101 1111101010100101 11110101111001 111000101010101 11111110101 101010101110101 1101010100010101 101101110110111 1110101010 11101010101001 111110101100101 1111111101110101 11111101110 11101011111001 11110111010101 11110101110111 11010111110 110011101110101 1111011111101 11111111001111111 111010101010 1101010101110101 1101010100010101 101101110110111 1110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, her, on are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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