This is an analysis of the poem From The House Of Yemanjá that begins with:

My mother had two faces and a frying pot
where she cooked up her daughters...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbacdeb XfccXccXbg fXhXbX hhXfg eXadf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,6,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010101 1111010 001 0111110 1101110 10101 111100110 1111 110111101010 101 111100111 1111110 00100100010 10 1101 1101010 111110 011 011101010 00111 1010 01 01101 1111 11110 1110110 1011 1011 10111101 1010111 11 0111101010 0101 111111 110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • 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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mother, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines need is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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