This is an analysis of the poem To Aunt Rose that begins with:

Aunt Rose—now—might I see you
with your thin face and buck tooth smile and pain ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdXefghiejedkk hbhhkbfgbjlm GXX hXlbhmecmX hdilkg XlbldaG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,12,3,10,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 0111111111 010101011101 111011 101011010101010 1011010 0011 10100 111101001 001101 01000010100 1110101 010010 1101010100011 0010 11111 01011001 1111 110100010 11011101 1001001110 01111010110 1110110101 0101010110 111111 1011001011 10101010 1111001010010101100 0110011010010 11 1001100001001000 10011001 11111010111110 101110011 100100011 01110010 101 1001100101010010 1101000101 1011101 110101 100101100 1001110011010 01000111010011101 1010101110 110100101 10101010001 101101110 1111110110 1101010101 1101101 011001 0101110101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, of, hitler are repeated.

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

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  • summary of To Aunt Rose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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