A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon by Gwendolyn Brooks: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon that begins with:

From the first it had been like a
Ballad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood....

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcde XbfghXd ibfjX kfddbc bblgf jcmdgchfbgehdkknln eblgXmdckbd bccbXff eocgn laddjck Xlmldebbbbnlbfaaj Xidcjk gmgealcc ke dffbbc akdac ojgXc bnX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,6,5,18,11,7,5,7,17,6,8,2,6,5,5,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 100101010000101 010111101010 101110001011101 1010101110001 01011101010 001001 10110101011 01001010 111101 0100001010 110111 01011 10010001111 111001101110110 0111101 001101 111100101000110 11101001 010100101110101 1010011010110101 11011100110 0010101011100 01101111101 1011010101 011011110010 10111011100010 001010 11110011 101111001001 1011111011111 101011101 101001111100010010011110 100101010 001001111010 010000100011 101001111 01100110011010100 0100111101110010 10101110 001001001101 110111110111010111111 01010101101 0101011111 011100001010 11 11010101101010 101101110 0010001111011010 001100110 01001 101110111011 100010101011010 1101010110101001001001001101 01010101010011 110111111011010011001111001 1111010 1110111 0110001011101 11000001110110011 011011000001100001 1000 01111101010101 011101 111011011101 01100101 10101011010 011101110110 1101011 10111010 111110 11 11110101011 1110101011 1110010111100 1010100 1011001010110101110 10101010 1100101011 001000101100 01110101011 01110100 1011101 111011111101 10101 1111001 100101 1101100110 1010001001011111 1101011101 0111110 1111110 100010011 11010001001010001010 1101 110010111011 1100111 01 1001010 100110101011100 001001001001 110111110 110101110101 100100111111010010 101111010101010 1001100110 11010111 1101000001110011111010 11111001111100101 11010101 0110111 1011010111 01111 11010101 1100 101010100111010 0111111111 1101010110010 1011110111010 01010101010110101 1011 111 10101110010010 100110001 1011010 01110010 01001010 0110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 145
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, it, so, that, and, she, he, to, their, of, her, very are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, she are repeated.

    The author used the same word he 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 done, that, child, the, red are repeated).

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