This is an analysis of the poem Motherhood, 1951 that begins with:
Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy,
Or maybe it's Pegeen to you,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcedfXghfgihXbahjjbikhjijecfakdiiiililgclhcicmkmhhXdajhdmjkamjnigmhdamoldoiikmlkikmjmXficnXidehjfamnheaoc idcmhXhhjlmkm l ljkilkbbXXijkeibokXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 108,13,1,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 11001001 1010101 10111 110101111 101010101 1011 1101 1111010111 111010111 0111110101 110101011101 11101011111 11110010 11010111010100 111101010 1111 110010011110 11101011101 1101010 110111010111111 011100111 1101010 10101001 1111 1111010 111110 010101110 11010101011 110101001 110101 11111010 101011010010 1011101011 101011111010 1100010010101010 110101110110 110101010 11101011 110110010 100011111010 10101010 11010111 1101111011 10101 1111111 111011110 11111111 110010 110010101 10101001 10101111 1111 11001110101 110101 01100100 010111010101 101011 111101001 0101010101 01011110 101011010 1111101111110 10101101001111 010101010010 1111101 01101011100110 0101011101010 11111001100100 10111 010011011111 0101100 110101110101 1111000101 1101001001 10101111 1110011 111010 111101110 1110101 11110100110 11110 111100100101 01110 1101110010 01100111001 11100101 11111111 10111110 110111 10110110110 11001 11101001 1100111 01010101110 10010101 110101101 1001 11101011010 101101 10101011010 1001 111011101 1101 1100101110111 11110110 1110101 0111011101 11101100101110 11101011 1011010101 1111010100 110101 1101111 1111001 11010111 1110110101 0111101110 10010 111101101010 11111110111 11100111101 1110010101110111 11011111001 01110101111 101010110110 11110111010 1111011101 1111101110111 110110111011 11011101110 1101111001 1011010010 100101101011 10101011010 1110101 110101011100 1101111010101 11010010101 110101 11010101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1288
- Average number of words per stanza: 255
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, and, to, it, my, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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