This is an analysis of the poem Because that begins with:
My father and my mother never quarrelled.
They were united in a kind of love...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd ebXb fgfg hihi hjhj khkh lblX hehe mfmf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111010100 1001000101 11010101010 1011010101 1101010001 11010101010 1101001111 11011101110 11110010001 1101110101 0111010100 1100011101 0111010111 01000110111 1011010111 1111011001 11110100101 1011010111 1111011001 1011000111 1101110100 110100100010 1101110101 11001101010 11010111010 1111010111 11010111110 1101100101 10111110010 1111111111 10111101010 1111011000 1001010001 0101110101 0101010101 1101011001 0111011111 0100010101 1011010001 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Because;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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