The first stanza is about the emphatic first assertion of a young woman’s Independence.
The second describes her determination to triumph over the expectations of the patriarchy to conform.
The third declares she can be anything she wants despite indoctrination.
And the fourth announces that even the bonds of birth can not hinder her journey.
(That is the gist of things, though much more could be said. But then, it wouldn’t be a poem, would it?)
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