However, this poem is written in a heroic couplet, proving women’s competency in producing literary works. To be specific, a heroic couplet is a writing style consists of a pair of rhyming lines, usually iambic pentameter. The name of the couplet “heroic” is used if a couplet is about a hero. Seeing that a heroic couplet is used in the last three lines, the speaker seems to be proud of her poem even though she is ashamed of it. She is proud with the fact that she successfully produced it but what makes her more proud is that she did not receive anybody’s help, particularly, males’. The writing style, heroic couplet, supports that implied feeling of proudness. Overall, Bradstreet successfully utilized literary devices such as metaphor, personification,