This is an analysis of the poem My Mother's Kiss that begins with:
My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss,
I feel its impress now;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad efcf agdg ehch hiai bjfj XdedXedgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 110011 10011101 110111 11000101 0111001 01010101 010101 01110101 0111001 11011001 111111 01110101 010101 11010111 110101 01000101 011101 11011101 011101 01110111 101111 11110101 110101 11110111 010001 11111101 111101 1101001001 010001 01011101 100111 01000101 111101 01110101 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same words again, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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