Mother any distance

• Structure (Mad)

  No rhyme scheme - new / changing relationship is unknown

  3 stanzas vary in line length and are in free verse

  15 lines in total so seems a little like a sonnet but deliberately not

  Enjambment - rhythm of someone talking naturally
• Meaning (Mad)

  Changing nature of parent and child relationship

  Speaker is addressing the poem to his mother using the pronoun 'you'

  Metaphorical level - growing in independence

  Literal level - his mother is helping him move out
• Imagery (Mad)

  Anchor - Stability or something holding you back

  Kite - it flies but is tied down

  Measuring - metaphor for distance between mother and child like and umbilical chord
• Who wrote Mother any distance?

  Simon Armitage