This is an analysis of the poem The Mother Faith that begins with:

Little mother, life's adventure calls your boy away,
Yet he will return to you on some brighter day;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1010101011101 110010111101 111110111101 111101100101 101010111101 111110111111 1110101101001 101110110111 101010110111 101010111101 101000111111 101011010101 101010100101 101010111111 111010111101 111110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, he, his, you are repeated.

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

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