This is an analysis of the poem The Childless Woman that begins with:
O Mother of that heap of clay, so passive on your breast,
Now do you stare at death, woman, who yesterday were blest?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCdcd XdddCdXd eebbCfcf aabbCgbgXaaddCdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101110111 11111110110101 11110101111101 11110101010101 111111 10110110 01110101 1100010 11010110110010 11100111111001 11011101110101 011101111111001 111111 110111 11010101 100111 11010111011110010 101101111101010 11111111010101 10111111010111 111111 101101 11110101 010001 101111110111111 11110111111001 0101011110000 11101111011111 111111 101101 11110111 110101 11001101110111 11111110111111 11101110111011 11111101010101 111111 101111 11111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; you, and, of, him, your, i, blest are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, you are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase blest connects the lines.
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