This is an analysis of the poem Your Mother Died Last Night that begins with:
O, baby mine !
Your lips unsheath, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A Xb X cDDC ef fc D DC Xg gc c cc b AX a c eXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1110 1111 1101 1111111101 111 11 11010111 1011 0101 010101 11101111 111 11 11010111 1111 1101 10010101 1110101001 0101 0101 11010111 1101 1101 1101 1101 11010101 1101 11001 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 38
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n't is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, do are repeated.
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