This is an analysis of Nailed by Meena Kandasamy.
Men are afraid of any woman who makes poetry and dangerous portents. Unable to predict when, for what, and for whom she will open her mouth, unable to stitch up her lips, they silence her.
Her pet parrot developed an atrocious fetish for the flesh of sacrificial goats, so, Kulamaayi was bolted within a box and dropped in the Kaveri.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X b X a b XX
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,
- Metre: 11010101011100110011010001111111101001010011011100 01100101010101010101011100011001011100100 111110010001101101100011010010110 111010011010011011011011101010111001110110010001001010111110111111100100 1111111101001001001111111001011100001100100010110101101001010 11111101101010110101 10010001111101001111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, she, to, of, in, so, for
Anaphora
she
Anadiplosis
her