This is an analysis of the poem Mother's Day Proclamation that begins with:

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcbXbXaccX XdXeXfXdfgbaegXcXabba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100001 01110111 1011000010101 110 1011101010100100 1100110110010 1010101 111101001010 1111010010010010110 10100110 0011001001010 0011100101010 001001010101110 110110001 010100101001000 11111010 1100101010 11110010011010 101001 110111110101 1011101010 10111100101010101 1010011001101001 0101101001101 11010011010011010 101 00101011010011001 10100100100110010100 100101111111010 101001000100010 00100100010010100 0100010001010010 01110010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 794
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, not, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words arise, let, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines country is repeated).

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