This is an analysis of the poem The Unmarried Mother that begins with:
What was the need of you, little one,
My baby dear, my darling son, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbb cccc ddee AAfF gghh iifF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 11011101 010101011 010010101 1101111 110011101 11111111 101011101 11111111 11010001 110111101 1010111 110101101 11011101 11011111 01111111 11010101 100110011 11111101 111001101 11110111 1110111 1011111 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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