This is an analysis of the poem My Dependence that begins with:
I like to be dependent, and so for ever
with warmth and care of my mother...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabb Aabb Acbb AXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001011110 01110110 110011101 111000111 110001011110 1111111110 11110001 1100111010 110001011110 11111111 010000010101 101111111 110001011110 111011011 1111010101 1101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Dependence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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