This is an analysis of the poem My Mother's Glasses that begins with:

I opened a worn trunk yesterday,
Sitting alone in my quiet room, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabba cdccd dddX dceec fffff XabbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110011101 100101101 1111101001 010110111 101100101 1101001001 110100101 011101101 011101101 110111101 010110011 110101100 111111111 0110100101 1111100101 111100101 1100100111 011101100 11101001001 011110101 1110101101 1111111101 1110110101 010010101 1111101101 010100001 0010111101 111110101 11110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, and, she, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of My Mother's Glasses;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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