The Crazy Woman : Commentary

The Crazy Woman by Gwendolyn Brooks is my favorite so far. I really like how Gwendolyn Brooks sets it up also, short and straight to the point.

• The poem contains personification in the first stanza. The personification is that a song can not be gay and can't have feelings.
• It contains enjambment in the 3rd line of all the stanza's and also in the 1st line of the second two stanza's.
• All 3 stanza's have a A-B-C-B rhyme scheme.
• The poem contains pause in the 2nd and 4th line of all three stanza's and pause in the 1st line of the 1st stanza.
• It is contrasting a May song to a November song.
• The poem contains assonance in the 1st stanza with the long A sound in gay and May.