Analysis of no.
Lisa Wilderman 1968 (Wisconsin)
no.
Touching the woman, hands on her most secret places.
This is fine, he says.
No, she says.
A pulling away, a tussle of sorts.
This is fine, he says.
No, she says.
And on and on until the end when, because she has no compass, she shrinks and shrinks.
And thinks: this is fine.
| Scheme | abCCdCCef |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1 1001011011010 11111 111 0100101011 11111 111 01010101101111101101 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
About this poem
This is a small story of a woman who has no sense of self and acquiesces to things even though she does not want them.
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