This is an analysis of the poem All-Souls' Night that begins with:
O MOTHER, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board spread,
I prayed for his coming to our kindly Lady when Death's doors...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCc XcddeeCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101101110110111 11101001101011111101 01110010111010111 1101101011110101101 10101101011111010101 110110111111010111 11010011101101001110 111111101110100111 011100111111110011 001001111111100100101 1111111010110101111 111111111111101111 10101101011111010101 0110110111111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 81 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, his, and, my, he, of are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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