This is an analysis of the poem O, Pity The Slave Mother that begins with:
I pity the slave mother, careworn and weary,
Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbb cdcdbebe fffffcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110100110 11111001001 1010111110110 1011011011000 111010011010 111001001001 1110010011010 101011011001 0110100110110 11011001101 01110010110010 11011001001 010010111010 01011001001 110010010010 111111101001 111011010010 01001001011 011011010010 01011001001 011011011110 11111010001 110111011110 01101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; her, and, i, of, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, her, the are repeated.
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