This is an analysis of the poem My Mother's Body that begins with:
1.
The dark socket of the year ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdc defgh ijXkl mgXnX oopbp pnoXn kpcgp ccnok cXmbo X kXg bgh bmg bgf fpX Xco gnc mXn aXg X aja cec qjb plm lfk cbo ckn bol pdi gpp XXm X agbd aado kdog oglc pmbq bcmn nkcq dpmgXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0110001 010110111 1101001 1010110101 100111101 1100111 11111001 101100101 11010111 1110101 10110101 111101 11110011 1111010 101101010 111110011 011011111 110110100 10111110 101101000 110011 101001001 11011011 110111010 101010 11111010 1111110 1111101 10111101 101110 0101011110 110111101 11010 101010011 0111111 1101001010 11011010 11101010 1011010 01010010 10001010 110111000 0111111 1011011 110111 1 111010100 01101010010 100110110 10110011001 10011010101 0011110111 11010101010 0110100100 010111101 010101111101 111010110 1010101001 011111001 101001101 1010111000 10110011 101011011 01001101 101101110 111111110 11111111 10101100101 101101110 11010100 010110111001 1101111100 10111111110 1 10010111 100101 0101101101 001001010010 1110111 0010110110 0110101111 010111101 010110101 010111110 101010011110 1011101111 11111001110 1011111111 10010101110 11001101110 1111111101 1111111100 11100011 1001010110 110100110 1111111101 100111101111 1011110 101001111 0010010010111 0110101011 1110110101 1001110001 111010101 11110111 11010111101 111101 1 10011010011 011011111101 011111001100010 101001111011 1011010111 1101011111 11101001011 01010111 1111111100 1110110101 111111011 100011001 1011010101 11011101110 11111111010 1001101 1111101001 00100100101 0010000011 01111101 111101111 0110110010 1110011001 1111010 11111111 1111101010 010111110 1101010011 0100110101 11010101111 11111101 010100110011 110111111 0110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 146
- 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; you, your, trying, this, of, and, walk, our, my, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your, what, this, our, i, did, you are repeated.
The author used the same words this, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Mother's Body;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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