This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother that begins with:
I long for my mother's bread
My mother's coffee ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXcdbeffdXfXagXdfXaaabecg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 11010 01 111001101 1101 110111 1010011 1010110 1011111 1110101110 1011001 11111 11010 001011 00111001011 1101010 0101 01101011 0111 111101110 10100101011 01110 111101 111 111011011 111 010010 1101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 767
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, if, i are repeated.
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