This is an analysis of the poem The Mother that begins with:
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd efegegXhhiiiaffeeeeeee jXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,22,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010011101 10100101111011 011100101011 0101101101001 10100111 011011001 1010110101 1101111 1010100101101 01101000100101 11100100010100111 10 11100111 11110111101 1111011011 11 111010101 01111111 11101111 110110111011001 111 01100010011 01110011000001110100 11111 110111011 1101111 110101 10101 1111101 010111111001001 101111011 0011110101111 0111111 011111110111111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 468
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, or, of, i, have, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your, believe are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase whine connects the lines.
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- summary of The Mother;
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