This is an analysis of the poem The Southern Mother's Charge that begins with:
You go, my son, to the battle-field
To repel the invading foe; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecXc Xfcf XXef Xaca XecX feXe bafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 00100101 101010101 111111 11110101 110101 01111101 111101 11011011 110111 01110101 110011 111111 110101 11011111 110101 01011101 010111 11110010 010101 010100111 010101 11010001 010101 11110101 010101 10010001 111100 1100101001 111111 111100101 110001 111111001 111101 110111011 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; every is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we'll is repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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