This is an analysis of the poem Memory that begins with:
ask me to tell how it feels
remembering your mother's face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcXdaXXdcaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101101 01001101 101010011 001101111 111010111 101001 10101010 11 11010100 1111100 1010 110010101 11111 1111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of Memory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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