This is an analysis of the poem Mothers' Splendid Dreams that begins with:
Mothers dream such splendid dreams when their little babies smile,
Dreams of wondrous deeds they'll do in the happy after- while;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011110101 10101110010101 100100011100101 11110011000101 10111011011101 10011011110111 10100011110101 10111001010101 10111010011100 000110110010111 11111111110111 11101011010001 10111011110111 11101011110011 11111011010111 10111100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, that are 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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