This is an analysis of the poem Mother And Son that begins with:

Now all day long the man who is not dead
Hastens the dark with inattentive eyes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaa cdccdee aXafdd bgbghh dadaiciddcXffafaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,6,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011011 1001010101 0100111011 11010110101 11001000101 0101110101 1101100001 1111010101 11100101011 1011010100 11001011101 11001010101 001001110101 01110010001 0101010001 100111010 0111010101 1111010100 10001010101 011101001 1011110101 0100110101 100110011 10110010101 0101100101 1101010001 1100111101 0011000101 0110010101 0110100101 11010010101 10101101101 0101110101 1101101101 1011110001 0100010101 0101101100 1001010101 1101010001 1001011101 01110100001 1011000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Mother And Son;
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