This is an analysis of the poem When Mother Sleeps that begins with:
When mother sleeps, a slamming door
Disturbs her not at all;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD acacXddD efefgdgD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010111 01110101 110101 01011111 110001 11011101 010101 01011111 110001 01011101 011101 11011100 010101 11110110 010101 11010110 110101 11011101 010101 11011011 000111 01110001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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- summary of When Mother Sleeps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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