Where's Mamma? by Edgar Albert Guest: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Where's Mamma? that begins with:

Comes in flying from the street;
'Where's Mamma?'...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbX aXaXccXX dXdXeeeX eXeXbbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010001 1010 1110111 1010 1010101 1011111 1011101 1010 1010111 1010 1011111 1010 0011101 1011101 111010110 1010 1010111 1010 1111001 1010 1010101 1110101 1110110 1010 1010111 1010 10011111 1010 1111111 1010111 1111101 1010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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  • summary of Where's Mamma?;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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