This is an analysis of the poem My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer that begins with:

When the moon appears
and a few wind-stricken barns stand out...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcadefffbXccbg XcXghXadXhaXbgXXXXf XaaaifibXeXedahbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,19,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 101110111 00111 11001 101111 1110101 110001001 01011101 00101101 001101001 1101 110010011 11010 0111001 1001101 100011101 1011 1 1010011101 110010 0001101 0010110 101110 10010101 0110010 111001000100 01010010 11110 100101 10111111 00101001 1110101 11011 1101 11101000 0100100111000 1 1100111 101011 0101110 0110101 11001001 10010001 0100111 00101001 0010100100101 00111001 1111001 01011010 0100101 111111 11101 00111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 534
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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