This is an analysis of the poem Mother,If I Lose To You that begins with:

Mother, if I lose to You,
That is my only Victory....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXcXXacXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001101 10110100 11011100011 011010 010100110 011 10101011 11010111 1101001 11101 101101 111000 11110011101 01010011101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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