This is an analysis of the poem The Mothering Blackness that begins with:
She came home running
back to the mothering blackness ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbbA AaabA BccbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110 10010010 10010010 1110011001 11110 11110 1001110 1001110 101001100111 11110 11110 1111010 1111010 10101110101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Mothering Blackness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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