This is an analysis of the poem Deaf Martha that begins with:
Poor Martha is old, and her hair is turn'd grey,
And her hearing has left her for many a year; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd baXa ebeb dfdf gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001101011 101011011001 101011100111 111011011001 11101011001 1110011010110 11111011011 01101011011 11101111001 11110111001 1111100011110 11011011001 11001011001 10111011001 11011001001 11001011011 11111001111 11101101001 01111111011 11011011001 11101101011 01001011001 11001101001 1100110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; her, and, to, them, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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