This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier's Mother that begins with:
Awake, little daughter, awake!
The sad moon is weaving her shroud;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdX ebebffgf hbhbbbdb ieiebbdb bgbgjjdj cecebbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101001 01101001 01101011 01001001 11111011 111011001 011110011010 01101010 101111101 11011001 1001001101 101001001 11001001 11001001 111011110011 11001001 11101011 11111111 11001011 01001001 1100101 111101 111010110010 11011101 101011101 11101001 11011001 011011101 11001011 101001011 011110011110 11011011 11101011 101001101 001111101 11101001 0101110010 110110010 011010110010 1011011010 01011011 01001001 01101011 11001101 1100111 01011001 110100111010 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, oh, his are repeated.
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