This is an analysis of the poem The Reading Mother that begins with:
I had a mother who read to me
Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ccbb ccdd eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101101 1001011001 100101101 10100101 110101111 0101101101 1001001101 1100110101 110101111 0100100101 100110101 100100101 1101011101 110100111 101101101 111100101 111100101 1001011001 101111100 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, his, of, that 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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