This is an analysis of the poem Unchangeable Mother that begins with:

Mothers never change, I guess,
In their tender thoughtfulness....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbccbbddeeffgXhhiiddccAAbbggcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 0110100 11100111 1010011 1111111 1111100 1110101 1011111 1110001 1011111 1110011 1110101 1111111 1110111 1011111 1111101 1110110 1000100 1010111 1011111 1011101 1010101 1111101 1111111 1010111 0110100 1010111 1011101 1111101 1111101 1001110 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 999
  • Average number of words per stanza: 193
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word just is repeated.

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