Gwendolyn Brooks The Crazy Women

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Gwendolyn Brooks wrote “The Crazy Women” as a quatrain. This quatrain consisted of many Stanzas. This arrangement of words and lines turned into important meaning that a reader or writer could understand. Each stanza is written in four different lines. Brooks does use repetition in her writing. “I’ll wait until November” line is both mention in the first and second stanza. These four line combined with the repetition turned in a beautiful masterpiece.
“The Crazy Women” poem sound can be heard many different ways. The order patterns of rhymes at the end of the lines can be viewed as a A-B-C-B in each Stanza. This means the last words of the second line rhymes with the last word of the fourth line in each stanza. This poem does not have a internal

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