This is an analysis of the poem The Red Son that begins with:
I love your faces I saw the many years
I drank your milk and filled my mouth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXfgfXahdibfgjheaXXXhaXjgci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110100 11111111 01111011 11101 10101011 10011101 11001101 001010010001 10 101101 110101100101 1011011110 010001 11100111101101 11111011 11001 1111010 111010 0011100101 1110100101 111001011010 1101111 0111101101 110 1111110 111101110 11011101 10001111100 1011000111 1010001 10100100 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1123
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; your, i, you, and, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
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- summary of The Red Son;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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