This is an analysis of the poem Mama that begins with:
Mama’s face
is smooth and pale as tea-rose leaves....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcX ddeebbfbbgababa dggbbXdfhbX diacbjklmkcdajmiblfX iajhXgmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,11,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 01111111 110010011 1101011 1111110 1011 10111 111 011001 10010 11001 11011 10110 1101 10110 1111 1011010 01011 01100 01011 11 10110 10110 111 1011001 11100 101 111011 01001001 11101 111100111 1001 101101 1111101011010 10010101 1011110 011010 101101 11101 10101 11101 010111 1011100100 10101 111100 011011111 1111 1110101 101110001 10111011 11001011 11011111 01101101 11011001 11111010 0111101 10110 10010111010101 010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; slower, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word pit 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 slower, stars are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase slower connects the lines.
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- summary of Mama;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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