This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother that begins with:
IF e'er for human bliss or woe
I feel the sympathetic glow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbc bbcdede ffgggddg Xhaabbggijj ggjji iiaaeekkii llXeechhhiibbll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,11,5,10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110111 11010101 010111101 010111 11010101 11010101 110101 10110101 11010011 111101 11010101 110001 01010111 110101 110101101 01010101 010101 010110101 11010101 11111101 11010111 111111 11110111 1101011010 11110111 111100101 11110111 01110101 11110001 11010101 010111 01110111 11110101 11010101 110100101 11011111 01110101 111101 11111101 01010101 11010001 01010101 01000101 11000101 01110001 01000101 11010101 01100100 11011101 01111111 01111101 01011101 1101101 010110010 1011100010 110101010 110010101 101111001 101110101 11010101 111000101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the, and, than, to, e'en are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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