This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother that begins with:
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far,
Under the window where I often found her...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabbc cbXcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111111 10010111010 101111010010 11101000101 10100110011101 0111111010 1000101111010 1010101100011 1011110101101 01011100010 11100100101010 1101111111 11111111010 11010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; most is repeated.
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