This is an analysis of the poem She Mothered Five that begins with:

She mothered five!
Night after night she watched a little bed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abbccddbb AbbeXbbXX AffbbgghhXAeeddccaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010001 1101010101 1001111101 1101010111 1101000100 11001 1101000111 1111000101 1101010001 1101111101 1101110111 1111110001 1101011111 1101010111 11001 1101110101 1101011110 0011100111 110011110011 0011011101 1101111101 1101010101 1111110101 11001 0110011001 0001111101 1111110101 1001110001 1111110101 11010101001 1101011001 1111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; she, night, after, her, they, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words night, taught, she are repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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