This is an analysis of the poem The Sad Mother that begins with:

Sleep, sleep, my beloved,
without worry, without fear,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab bXcX XXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 0110011 1111111 111111 111001 1110010 10101 1010101 1111001 1101100 011111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sleep, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word although is repeated.

    The author used the same word sleep at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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