This is an analysis of the poem The Consecrating Mother that begins with:
I stand before the sea
and it rolls and rolls in its green blood...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbcdeafegf ehiXaiihXjXdjceekgkieif jhllbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,23,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 101110011 10111111 111010 0111 01110010 11101101 101010101 11101 1111010 0101001001001 110010 1110110110 0101011 01010101 1111010 11110101110 111111 1010010 111011110 0010001001010001 1101111110 11010101 111111111 10011011001 010001010 11011101 111111101001 011101101011 1010100100 001101 10111100100 10110110 1010101001 11111100 111010010 1111010 101 1011010 10 11011111 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, in, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, flashing are repeated.
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- summary of The Consecrating Mother;
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- history of its creation;
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