This is an analysis of the poem The Socks My Mother Knit that begins with:
The mother of the Khan doth dwell
Two thousand wintry miles away ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bb bc de d fd fd g Xc d a hX ha ie Xg je X d jd jd Xd ig kgXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000111 110101001 111110111 01111101 11010111 01100101 01100101 11011101 11010111 01010111 01011101 01011101 11111111 11101111111 11011101 111010101 01110101 11010101 11011101 100101001 110011101 01010101 11010111 01101100 11011101 01011101 111111101 010101011 01010111 01010101 010100100 01011111 10011101 01011110 010100110 10010101 111110111 01010001 11011111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, that, they, and, hears are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words upon, the are repeated.
The author used the same words they, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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