This is an analysis of the poem I Must Not Tease My Mother that begins with:
I must not tease my mother,
For she is very kind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXded Abebcfbf Acdcbbcb AcXcaccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 110101 11011101 110101 1111010 111111 11100101 111101 1111110 111101 11011101 110001 10110101 110101 1111101 110101 1111110 111101 11101101 111111 11101101 111111 11110101 110000 1111110 111101 11110011 110101 1111010 11001011 11110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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