This is an analysis of the poem Mother and Child that begins with:
We're all dreamers; we don't know who we are.
Some machine made us; machine of the world, the constricting family. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc d bd dc ce Xfc efX XcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111111 10111010010010100 1100110111 1111010 01001001110001010 010010110010 10111110 1011100111 101100110 1011011 0011010101 101101100011 00100000101 1101110010 10110010 10110101 11110111100 10011010111 0011011001110 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; we, of, and, to, be, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words machine, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Mother and Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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