This is an analysis of the poem Mothers And Wives that begins with:
Mothers and wives, 'tis the call to arms
That the bugler yonder prepares to sound;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdcd aeaebdbd fcfcgfgfXeaeabdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 1010100101 111010101 111111011 1 011110111 111110111 1011101101 0011100101 101100101 11101110 110100101 111110111 110110111 1110010101 10010101 111100111 101110111 0011101101 11101111 10100110101 1100110101 10100100101 1010101101 111100101 101110111 011110111 111110101 0011101101 111110111 11110101 1100110111 1010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, may, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word mothers at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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