This is an analysis of the poem A Letter To My Mother that begins with:
How are you
Many days, many thousand of days I don't see you ma,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cXdefa ggfh dibfX fjek i dikdeh dh accccX bfXja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,5,4,1,6,2,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 10110100111111 10100111111 10100111111 1011101101 10101001111111 111110010 1111011110 111001111101111 110111 1111110 101010011 111010111110110111011 111110111111101 1100101110 010101010 100111100 10010111011101110110 111111111 111001110 1100110101 10011010010 10100101001 011101010 1010101 101010 1001001010101 1011111 110101100 11111111110111101 111001010010 11111101 1110111111101 1111 10011111011111111 111101 110110111101 11011101001110 11011001010100010 11010111111 11111 100100 111011111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; many, days, thousand, of, i, you, as, when, my, near, not, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, when, you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines here is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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