This is an analysis of the poem To Mother that begins with:
In the old Strauss waltz for the first time
We had listened to your quiet call, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab cdXd edXb cded XabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111011 111001101 11101011100 101000101 1111101011 111110001 1011101110 010011111 1000110110 101010001 011111111 101100111 00101011101 101111101 1110011010 1011001001 101011010 101011101 0011100110 111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of is repeated.
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