This is an analysis of the poem The Mother's Return that begins with:
A MONTH, sweet Little-ones, is past
Since your dear Mother went away,---... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bbXX aXbX cdad aebe bbXe abXe fgcg chih cbXX adad Xaia afhf Xbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11110101 11011001 01100101 1110101 01010101 10111110 110110101 10110011 01010101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 11111111 11010101 11100100 01110111 01010100 01011101 01011101 11010111 11000100 01011101 11010101 11010011 10010100 110000110 110001010 11010101 0001010 111011111 11010111 11011101 11110101 11010101 01110111 01111111 11110110 00111001 00111101 0101011 01100111 11010111 01010101 01010011 010101 11100101 111101001 11010111 11110101 11011101 01011111 1110011 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, of, to, the, a, i are repeated.
The author used the same words her, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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