This is an analysis of the poem Supper At The Mill that begins with:

Mother.
Well, Frances.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab bcdefX cghgcijikallmf lXlngjojoifbjlgipbj XfehdXdH XgXgdXdH fffXbXbH dfdffXfH kncnfaoneehjqecndXeqjnbrcjgnjllecl bpgmdenlsfenbdcjfgalfjXXdjngnisaccoadacenlfdqltnlgacqsglemgeh effelle iijjjj eeleel eejffj iieooe nndggd lllffl lXsiiX jjnccn nncooc uuenne
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,14,19,8,8,8,8,34,61,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,23,9,8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10 110 10 1010111 10101110101 1111011101 1101010111 101011010 111 1101011101 11100110 1101 1111110101 1101011111 1101011111 1011011101 11101111111 1111110 1110 11111011101 11111111110 1101010101 1 1101110 1111 1011101101 11111010111 10101 1110101 1101010111 1101000101 1101110101 1101110111 1111010101 11111010111 0101010101 11111011101 11100110101 1111110001 1010 1010010 1010100 1111111 101110 0111100 1010101 1011000 1111111 11110 1111111 1101101 101011000 1110101 1010101 1011000 0111111 11110 1111111 1111111 1111101 1110111 1110101 10011010 1011001 11110 1111111 1110111 1011101 1011111 1110111 11011000 1110111 11110 101 11101011111 111111 11111 1101010111 111110 111101 1111010111 1111111100 1111111100 10110 111111 1101010001 1101010001 1011 1111111 111010111011 11010101001 1111111001 1011011101 1111011111 0101010101 111111 1111 10110100111 1101010111 0101011111 1101111101 11111100111 11100101111 1011011111 1001111111 1111110111 1101110111 1010 1111110011 11111110010 0101110 1111 1101110101 1111 1111111 110111 11101 1101110101 1111001111 101101 11101 1100110111 11111010111 1111111101 0101010101 1011011100 1101010101 0111110101 0111110101 1101111101 0111010110 1111100111 1011110111 0101111111 10110011010 1111 1110111 1101111101 110 11111101 1110110111 1111011101 10010 101100 110 11111111 111101 11111 1101111111 1101110111 1101111101 1101110101 1001011101 1111110101 11110110111 1101011110 1101111111 0010 11110101 1101110101 11111 1010001 1011110101 11001011101 1101111100 1101111100 1101010111 1101010 1 11011101 11110101 101111 11011101 11110001 011111 11011101 01010101 110101 11011111 01010101 111100 11110101 110110101 110101 11010101 01111101 0101001 11010101 100101001 110101 11011101 11011011 110101 11011101 01111101 111111 110111001 11110101 000111 11111101 11011101 101111 01011111 10010101 110111 11011101 01010001 111001 01010110 11011111 110101 11011101 01011111 111101 11010011 11111101 0111010 110100111 01010111 111111 11010101 11110101 110001 11100101 11010101 010111 11111111 10111101 11111 01010101 11011001 110111 10110111 11111111 010101 11111101 11111101 111001 11011101 11110101 101111 11011101 01010111 0101101 11011101 110110101 0101001 1111011101 1101111111 1111111101 1011110111 11101010101 1101010101 1011111101 11100010 1011 110111111 11111010111 1011111101 1111011101 111110 110101 1111111 1101 0111010111 11010110011 11111 110101 1001010111 1111000101 11 110110111 1110111 11110100111 1010111 101010111 1010111 101010111 1111001 111111111 1111111 01100100101 111011001 111111111 10101111 1111111111 1011101 1111110111 0011101 1111110101 1011111 1111111101 1111111 1111111101 11011110 1111110101 00101100 1111110101 10111100 11111001101 1111111 101111111101 1011101 10111111101 1101011110 1100110111 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 307
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; warm, to, and, he, as, you'll, you, she, them, nor, at, his, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same word enter 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 frances, years are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word willie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases frances, he, george connect the lines.

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