This is an analysis of the poem Maternity that begins with:
After the months of torpor,
Weakness and ache and strain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb decefe XgfgXg eabaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 101111 1001110 010101 0111110 011101 1101110 111101 0001110 010101 1001010 111101 1101010 110110 10101110 110101 1111110 111111 1111110 1011010 1111111 0011010 1111111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, so are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Maternity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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