This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother that begins with:

Chiming a dream by the way
With ocean’s rapture and roar,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dadacbcb ebebcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101 0101011 1101001 1001101 100101 101111 010001001 1010001001 11111011 11101001 101111001 11111001 101001101 1101111 01001001 101001001 1101001 1111111 11011001 001001101 1110111 11011011 001001001 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; in, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word walking is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word hair at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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