This is an analysis of the poem I Know Your Compassion Mother that begins with:

I know your compassion Mother and hence await better days.
I may meanwhile be battered with losses, want and debt. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbaXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101101101 1111010010111 1111100110110 11010010100100101101 11111111110 1011101010110110 11001011101 101111111 110111110 010001011010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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