This is an analysis of the poem Five Letters To My Mother that begins with:

Good morning sweetheart.
Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdXcedfgh iccijiXccXdcXcdbj cXbdbbdbdcigXbgeee edecfdcedXbcfeebfffifeXffff bfefeedkfaecaihXfecaik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,18,27,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011 010110011 0101110 10111 1010010 11101010 01100011 101101 1100110 111001 100111 1010011 1101 010110101 110110101 11011101101011010 1010100010010 101010011010010 1110011110 11001010101 11111 010011101 010111100101010 010110111110 1111111 10111111 1110011010 111111110 0101011011 010001 10010 11101100 1100010 110101010 1101010 110010001010 110101100 11000010 1111 111101001 11110010001 110101 11010110 1110101 010110001 111110101 0101 111101 0011111110 01110 0100101 011011 010010010 01011110 010110 001011010100 001110101010 01011010 001001010101 1001110 101110 110001011110 0101010 1010010 0100010 0100010 100100101010 0101001 101011 1001000100 1010011 1001011010110 1001101 111001 0001010 11010101011 101110011001 0001010010 1010101 10010010 11000100010 11101 1100100111 110010 11001110101001 110111 1001001 1100011 1100011 010010 1010110111 1010111101 110101 11100010 0111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, i, that, her, he, to, she, as, if, where, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words good, and, i, a, he, she, to, the, as, where, what are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sweetheart, bored, damascus are repeated).

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