This is an analysis of the poem Power Of Maternal Piety that begins with:
Why gaze ye on my hoary hairs,
Ye children young and gay?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb bebe fefe cgcg bgbg eheh eiei ebeb ebeb gegX fbfb eded hhhhXggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110111 11010101 011111 11010111 1101101 10110101 111101 11010111 111101 11010111 110111 11110101 111101 11111101 111111 11011111 010101 111110001 111101 11111101 110101 11110101 101101 01111101 111111 11011101 110101 11011101 111111 11111101 111111 11010101 111101 01011101 110101 01011101 111101 11010111 110111 11111111 010101 11011101 010101 10010101 100101 11110101 110111 11011111 110101 11010001 110101 01010101 1101001 11010101 110101 11011101 111111 01010111 110101 1011001001 010101 01011101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
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