This is an analysis of the poem Child And Mother that begins with:
O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand,
And go where I ask you to wander,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcdcd efefgXgX ahahabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011111 111111010 101101001001 011110110 1100111011 111111110 101010111001 0010110010 1001101011001 110110011 1001101011001 110010011 111101101011 111011110 11111011001 11111101 11111011011 0010111110 10101111011 011110110 11011111111 1011011110 01101001001 011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, to, no, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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