This is an analysis of the poem To A Mother that begins with:
Ever-patient, bereft of all, Mother Mine!
Never didst thou take anybody to task, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXefgeXhfiaeajchkhgechkihiei dbXXjbhbXjXehhhejXkgh XXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,21,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10100101101 10111100001 1110101010 101100111 1010101001 0110101010 0100101111 1110010111 111010101 1110111101 11110101 010111101 101110001010 10001010111 1101110 111100111 100101111 111101110 110010111 111010101 1010101 011101011110 001101101 111011111 111111111 011011111 0100111111 1111011011 00100100 11111001 11111100 1010001111 10101100001 1001101011 011110101 1101 011101010 111011001 001010010 001011011 111101101 0111011010 10111101100 11 01011 010101011 001010110 1101110111 11011101010 100101100101 1010101010 01001001001 11010011 1000001010010000010 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, thy, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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