This is an analysis of the poem The Earth-Mother that begins with:
COMETH a voice:—‘My children, hear;
From the crowded street and the close-packed mart ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccC dedefbfb gdgdhchC ididXbjB kbkbgcgC lalakbkb mamakckC afafkbkb jijincnC ococfbfB kXkckckC XakacbCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 0010110111 111101101 101111101 111111001 111101101 0010110111 111101101 11110101 111111111 010110101 010110101 100111111 0100100101 111111101 10111001001 10010111 010010101 1101101111 1010101101 11111111 1011110101 10010111 111101101 11111111 100100101 1010110111 110100101 1101001001 110100101 110101101 10111001001 100100101 11010011 011111101 111010111 1010100101 10110111101 010100111 111101101 010111101 1011110101 111101101 111101111 110101101 1100100101 111101111 10111001001 1110010111 10010111 101111101 11011101 111010101 010100101 110101101 111101101 110101101 101111101 10111101 1100110111 011111111 110110101 111010101 00111001001 111111101 1010101101 11001001001 11001001001 1111100111 1010100101 0100111101 111101101 100101101 111011101 10100110101 010010101 111010111 010101111 110110101 10111001001 111100111 10101110 1100011001 11011101 1100101101 110010101 110010101 111101101 1111001010 1010111111 110101101 11111011 110100111 111100101 111101101 10111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4391
- Average number of words per stanza: 737
- Amount of lines: 107
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; my, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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