This is an analysis of the poem The Mother's Funeral that begins with:
Then died, lamented, in the strength of life,
A valued mother, and a faithful wife:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffee bbggbbbbccffhh bbii jjkk bbjjfXgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,14,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101000101 0101010101 1101111111 10111101011 1101111011 1111110011 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011110001 1101010101 0111110101 1011010111 11011100111 1101011101 1101100101 1011010101 1111110101 1101011101 10110101001 1101101101 1101010011 1001011101 1011010101 0111110101 1111110101 11001110101 0101010101 10110100011 1011000111 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111110101 10011010111 0101110101 11010100011 1101010101 0111111101 01001111111 0111011101 01011111101 0101011101 0100100101100 0111110101 1100110101 1101110001 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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