This is an analysis of the poem The Negro Mother that begins with:
Children, I come back today
To tell you a story of the long dark way ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeebb ffgg aacchhiiaajjbbkkXXccccllmmhhhhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011101 01101000111 1110111101 0101011111 11111101 1101010111 1101111011 100011001001 1101011001 1001010101 1101110101 101010101111 101010101011 11011101111 110000101 11101101011 110111011 1111001001 11110111 1101010101 110111101 111011001 010101101 11110110100 010111001 11101111111 1101111011 110100101 11001110110 101101010 1110111111 1100111111 1111000111 0101111101 0101010010 11010011011 101101001 10010010001 111101001 111101011 0100111111 0100110101 01010101011 1110110111 1110101011 11010101101 11110111111 0110101011 11000111110 111010001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 728
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; that, to, i, no, my, of, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, i, remember are repeated.
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- summary of The Negro Mother;
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