This is an analysis of the poem The Mother On The Sidewalk that begins with:
The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching by
Is the mother of Old Glory that is waving in the sky....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccbbaa bbddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111011101 001001101010001 111010101110101 1111101010100111 101011101111101 101110100011101 1110101011101101 111010101010101 111010101110001 111010100010101 111110100011001 01000100011101 111110101111101 1010100101010111 111010100011111 1110010101010001 111011100011111 001010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; her, there, of, has, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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