This is an analysis of the poem The Mother that begins with:
Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping
Warm in my arms,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccddaabefffe fccffaaff aegXge dhhffiiddifeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,9,6,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011110 1011 11101111111 1111101101 111010101 1011011110 10110 11010001110 10111011110 010110001010 11111111111 1011110010 0101011010 00101111010 101000111 11101011110 1011 100111111 1110101111 1100111001 001011110010 01110 1111100110 010111010 1111000110 11010101 1011011010 1011011111 0010111010 0011111011 1101101010 0001 111101111 1111001111 01101111011 11101011010 10110 10101010 11110111110 101111010 1110100101 101111011 0100101111 101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, your, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of The Mother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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