This is an analysis of the poem In Memory Of My Mother that begins with:
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay
Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb XaXa XcXc XXXdXaadb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101100011 001001111 11010101010 11100101100 100101101011 111111 10101010101 0111010101 111011001010 01101 110011101 111110101001 1011110010 0101111111 01010111110 1001010101 1111100011 10001010111 11010101011 1111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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, and are repeated.
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