This is an analysis of the poem Dreading that begins with:
SOMETIMES when they are tucked in bed the gentle mother comes to me
And talks about each curly head, and wonders what they're going to be....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabX ccccbX ddeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111110101010101 11011101110111000 1101011111110101 0101110111011101 1100010111010101 1111101110111111 1101011101010101 0101011101010101 0101010101010101 1111010111010101 0111001111110101 1101101110111111 1100111101010101 1101010111010111 1101011111011101 1101110100010101 1111111111011111 1101101110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, no, little are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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