This is an analysis of the poem Luther Burbank that begins with:
O Mother Earth, how couldst thou let him go?
Thy son, whose every touch was a caress... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabba ccdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111111 11110011001 01000101000 0101011111 11010100111 1101011111 1101001101 1001110011 11110100101 0101110101 0101001111 1100010101 1111010111 0101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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