This is an analysis of the poem Saints that begins with:
In our family, there were two saints,
my aunt and my grandmother....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cbXbXbcb XddX aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001011 1111110 1110100 111011010101 111010100110 1110 0110101010 1111011 0111001010 1010101 001100010 11101100100 11101100 110110 110101111101001 1110100 011100000100 101010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, she are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Saints;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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