This is an analysis of the poem Mother that begins with:
Ash falls on the roof
of my house....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab acdebXf Ghfieejj GjbikjfdXji Xff glg ck bhXmmjh icg gkXkdfX j bgj dbg X hXchj iedel cfXc Xcblcc mncnlg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,8,11,3,3,2,7,3,7,1,3,3,1,5,5,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 011 111101 0010110 010 0010011 111 10100 00111 1111 011010 0101 10101 0111 101010101 11111 00101 1111 1111 101010 10101 01110111 0111 00101 110101 1011 110 11 011110110 011101 1101 01100101 110010 10011 10 1101000101 1111 110110 1011010 1101 1011010 1101 11101010 11 0010110 1010101 1011 11110 1111 111110 111 1101 11011 11 111110 011 1000 0101 01 0101 111100 111110 0101 111011 11101010 01 1101 1101 010001 100001 1110 111010 101 0101 010111 110100 01001 111 10 1010 011 11111 11111 111110 11101 111110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, me, i, we, fought are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words because, we, on, of, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same words i, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of Mother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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