Before you were Mine - Form

Question 1

Regular Stanzas - Quatrains

Answer 1

1 - An element of regularity with the peom, indicating the universal, regular problem of the mother - pipeline from freedom to a “trapped” housewife and child bearer - defined many women in the 50s

2 - how she feels she has constrained and restricted her mothers freedom, and instead forced her into a constrained mother who has to now follow on with the burden of a child.

Question 2

Lack of Metre

Answer 2

1 - adds a personal element to the poem, allows the reader to have a close feeling to the speaker alike

2 - this could also be done to be the anthesis of her connection, while the connection should be personal, she feels disconnected with her mother.