This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother Earth that begins with:

O Earth, Earth, Earth,
I am dying for love of thee,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece cfcf ghgh Xbgb icic ebeb jeje bkbk hfhf cece Xblb hlhl eeee fbfb ckck cece bmbm enen clcl chch ococ hkhk pbpb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111 11101101 1111011 1111101 11101111 1010111 1011001 101001001 11100101 10101111 1110101 1011101 101110001 1011101 1010111 10101001 111101 0010110010 1110101 00111010 1111101 00110101 1110101 1101001 10100101 1101101 1110101 00100101 1011101 0011110 101011001 1111001 1011110100 001011001 101010100 1010101 11001111 10100100 111110011 0011111 1111101 0100101 1111111 01011001 111101 0101101 1101011 0011111 1010101 1010101 1010101 1100101 1111101 00100101 10101101 1111011 11111001 101011001 110101 1010101 00101011 1110111 10111111 1110111 1011111 10100101 1001001001 101001001 101101001 10101101 1101011 0110111 10101101 1101101 10101101 00100011 10110111 1011111 1010100101 1110101 10101001 11101001 00100101 10101001 1011101 1100101 1010101 1011100 1010101 10111111 111110101 00100101 1110111 0011111 1110101 0111101 1010101 1110101 11100101 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; earth, its, me, my, of, as, life are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words when, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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