This is an analysis of the poem Where Was I that begins with:
O Mother,
Can you tell me mother, where was I? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXbc eaXafgbh aiXjihba aXebcd kebbdakbhb abebcg bjdjecXkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,10,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110 111110111 01011011011 01101101110111 0111111 0110101 1101 10110100111 1111000101 01110101010 011001 11111010 01101100110010 0111101101 1001011111101 1110000111011 1111001001010 010100011 111001010110 1010111101 0101101111 10111100101010 1010111101 1001010 1110110 1111110 1001010101 111011111 1010110110111 0101011011111 0111111011 101011001 1010011 011001011111 11110110 111101010 111101111 110001101 011111110101010010 010110101111011 1010111100010 011010100101101 01010100101 1011010011000101 100010101101 001011110101 1101011100011 011001001001 1111100101011 111011011101 110100101 11111111111 11101111101 110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, would, to, your, just, boy, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words did, the are repeated.
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