This is an analysis of the poem Mater Triumphalis that begins with:
Mother of man's time-travelling generations,
Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca XdXd efXf gfgf cXcb eeee aaaa eheh ebeb egeg ijij abab XXag abab ebeb ckck ejXj ebeb fafa cbcb glgl mgmg cgcg fgXg XeXe cici ejej abXb nene caca aaaa eoXo pgpg cpcp bgbg emXm aeaeXgggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111001010 1001010001 10111100110 1011101111 11010110010 1111111101 01010111010 10011100111 10111011110 0111110111 010101001110 0111110101 11110011110 10110110111 10110101110 1011110011 1111111111011 1111111111 11011101011 1111110101 101011011101110 111101111110 1100111110110 11100010011 11011111010 1001111111 101111101010 1000110111 111100101110 11010110111 110011101110 1110110001111 11010101010 1111001111 11010101010 0111011101 11110101110 0100010001 010011011010 10111011001 10010111110 111100101111 11111111110 0101011010 10100101010 1001011101 010011101110 1101011001 00111100110 1101110111 110111111110 1111010111 1101010011010010 0111010001010 11010101110 10101010101 01010111110 11010011111 11100100110 110101001001 11110100110 1101011111 11110111110 1101110111 11110111110 0100110111 10010111010 01011110101 10110101110 1100110111 011100101100 0101010111 1010110101010 100110110011 11011101010 11111000011 1010001001010 10101010001 001000101110 11110110101 01100001110 0110010001 10110101110 11010100101 01110110010 1011010111 010111001010 0101011101 10110111010 00110110011 111100111110 111101111111 11110111110 1111110101 1100111011010 10011010001 111100011010 1101010101 111111110100 1101111101 11111111110 11101111011 101110101110 101111011001 111111111010 1111111011 100011010010 11010110011 110101111100 1011100011 010111111100 11010101001 110101101110 1101110101 11011001110 1101010111 11110111110 1101110111 11010100110 0111111101 10111111110 11110011111 10111111110 00100100100001 111100101010 1101010101 11110101110 1101010101 11111001110 1100011111 01111100110 11001100101 11000111110 1101010111 111111011110 0111010111 11101111010 01010111001 11111001111010 1110111101 111111111111 0110001101 11011111111 1111110111 10011111110 1011011101 0111010100 1101000100 10110101110 0011111111 101111010010 1111011101 1111001010011 1101110111 11110011111 11111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 39
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 156
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thy, and, from, thee, hast, thou, not, that, as, all, their, nor, to, have, us, though are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, their, i, my are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of Mater Triumphalis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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