This is an analysis of the poem Mother And Daughter that begins with:
Linda, you are leaving
your old body now, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXacdeffCeCeCaXdgecChgedgeebXABgiXccXCfhdCXcdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 11101 01111101 111111 11111 1110101 1101010 11110011 1111101 101010 11111 101010 111110 101010 1011110 0110110 11110100 111101 11111011 11011110 101010 1111010 01010100 01011 0110110 111111 10011001 10010001 10011010 0100 101110 11101 111101 111111 10111110 11010011 10111010 110010100 101010 1101101 1111110 1110101 101010 110111 101111 1111001 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1340
- Average number of words per stanza: 242
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, you, my, keep, on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, carrying, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines used, boys are repeated).
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