This is an analysis of the poem Mother's Glasses that begins with:
I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook,
And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX aadXXX eeddff gghhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110101 11110101100101 11010111110111 11010100010101 011101010101010 111101010101110 11010100110101 01111101111101 11011101110101 111101010111010 110101011101110 011101011101010 110001011100010 110001011111110 01110100010001 110011100011001 001110101010101 111111111110101 111011111010101 111011101110101 001010101010001 001111101110110 111010100101010 1011111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; 'em, in, we've, found, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we've, it's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lasses is repeated).
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