Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children that begins with:

All things within this fading world hath end,
Adversity doth still our joys attend;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffggdhiiiidhjjkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010111 0100111101 1111111111 1011011101 01010101000 01011101000 1111111101 1110110111 1111001111 1111010101 1101011111 1111100111 1011111111 1101110111 0101111111 10110101001 0101110001 1111001100 1111111111 1111111011 1111100101 1011011101 1011101101 11010100100 1010111101 0111101101 1101011111 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 234
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.

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