This is an analysis of the poem To My Mother that begins with:
Yes, I have sung of others' woes,
Until they almost seem'd mine own,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ddXd dede ebeb ffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01111111 11010101 11010101 010101101 11000101 01000101 11110001 111001111 110010101 110101100 01011101 111100111 11111101 11010111 11010111 11111011 11010111 11010101 11010111 1010111110 101111110 110111110 111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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