This is an analysis of the poem The Mother Watch that begins with:
She never closed her eyes in sleep till we were all in bed;
On party nights till we came home she often sat and read....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbbbcc ccXXdd aaccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110101 11011111110111 11010101110111 11010101110001 11011101110111 11110101111111 10111101111111 01011101010001 11111101111101 11011111010111 01011101111101 11010101111101 11011101011101 11010111011101 11111111010101 011101111101001 11011111110101 11111111110101 11011101010101 11011011010101 10011101011101 11110101011011 11010101110101 11010100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; we, that, she, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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