This is an analysis of the poem The Forsaken that begins with:
Holy Mother of God, Merciful Mary. Hear me! I am very weary. I have come
from a village miles away, all day I have been coming, and I ache for such... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc Xdabe debfbbe Xghdhhihjgk blgXcelafjhed lhkghjc Xdeeckeiccajah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,11,13,7,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011001011111010111 00101001111101011111 110110111111111101 1110011110101101 10010101110101101 010101001111011111 01111101111011001 10111010111111010 1110101110101011 111111111100101111 0101011000110101111 1111111110110101 01011110101111001101 0100010111010110001 1101101001010101010110 101010101010101 1111111101011011110 11011011110111 010111001011111110 1111100010110111011 10010011101101110010 101011101111111010 11110110111110 11101111011101001 111101011100111110 11011010001010111 11010011101101010 1011010110011010110 01111101101011101 010110111111001101 111110101011110 10111111111111 1110110011001011 110111111001110100 10111111001010111 110101101101111111 0111011001101111110 101111011011101101 110111110101010111001 1011101011101110 111110101011001 1101101011111110101 111011100100110 10100110110100101 101101100010010111 1110111110111111010 1110110010111011 1111111100100100111 1111111010110111110 11011100111010011 111110111011101 1101001110111111110 1111111001101010101 010111110111110 11110111111110110 010101111010011 111010110101010111 1101010011111101010 10100111010001011 111101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, be, he, and, child, me, baby, no, to, my, for, it, known are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, when are repeated.
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