This is an analysis of the poem Listen Mother that begins with:
Listen, mother,
My songs are eyes ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCDBE dfgfbX hXffij gcckXh bjdXlg cXXjaj ibbXdg kbdXglXaBCDBE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 1111 100101010 0010001 1111111 101101 010111011 1001 1011101 1100 011 111110100 1111 111011 11011 101111 0101111 1010111 111001001 01010 101001 11010101 1010010 111 1101100 011111010101 1101101101 11111010 10110110 1011 10111 1010101 1010001 00101 01010 11001 10010 1111 1011 1001 1010010 0101 101110 11010011 1100010001 111111 100101 01111010 10110 1111 100101010 0010001 1111111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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- summary of Listen Mother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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