This is an analysis of the poem The Cruel Mother that begins with:
She sat down below a thorn,
Fine flowers in the valley;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaB XBXB XBXB aBaB cBcB XBXB aBXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1100010 11110111 10111110 111111010 1100010 111111111 10111110 11101010 1100010 110011101 10111110 11001101101 1100010 111100110 10111110 11110001 1100010 11011001 10111110 11111010 1100010 1111001110 10111110 11011111 1100010 10110111 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Cruel Mother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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