This is an analysis of the poem Monologue Of A Mother that begins with:
This is the last of all, this is the last!
I must hold my hands, and turn my face to the fire, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc bdebXe fdccdc fghfgh ijcijc klgklgh ehebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001010001 1111111110010 1111111001001 110111101011 100111001010 101101011101101 110111110101010 101101000101010 011110110110101 1110101110 1110101001010 00100100100101 101111100101 1010011100101 00110101111 0101010001001 0100101111110 010011001001 111010111101 101011010111 101010101010 111111001010111 0110100101001 1110110111111 00010010101 111111010011 101001001101 1011101111101 111111100111 1110011110101 1111101111010 0010101111111 10010110001001101 01001111111010 0101111111111 11101111101 010111111101 1011001001011 1011010110101 10100101001011 0111110010010 1111001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, like, from, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, strange, like, from, all are repeated.
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