This is an analysis of the poem The Mother’s Secret that begins with:
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamed
In my slight verse such holy things are named--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccddbbXeddffddddaa aaaaggaaddbXaaaahh ggggddggii djjhhddhXhhkklljjhhaajjbXhhaammhhmXeeddeejjccddddggddaajjdd aagg gg aajjaahh nnnXgXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,18,10,59,4,2,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100100 0111110111 01010100101 10110010101 1101010011 11001111101 0101110101 100100111011 11010100111 1011010101 11011101110 1101010101 111010101 11010010101 1101010101 10010100101 1011010101 01110010111 1111010101 11001010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110101 10111100101 11010100101 0111010111 01001011101 00110110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1001110111 10010100110 1101011101 10010101001 11001010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010001 1011011111 1001010101 01010011101 1101010101 0101011111 1011010101 1111010101 0111111101 00110011101 0101110101 0101110101 11111100101 10010101001 0111000101 11011101001 1101111101 1111010001 1110010101 1110100101 1101010101 1111111101 0111010101 0101010101 1011110101 11001010101 1101011001 01010101101 111111101 1001011101 1101010111 01001010101 11001110101 11010101111 10110100111 1111010101 11010110111 1011110101 0101011001 0101111101 01111101001 01001110101 1101110101 11010100101 11010010101 11010100100 11010011111 0101010101 1111000101 0111000111 11110011101 1111011101 10110010101 1111110111 1101111111 1101110101 1001011111 11111100111 11111101001 11110100101 1100110101 01110101001 01110100101 11001010101 0110010101 0101010101 01010101001 0111011101 1101010101 0101110111 1101000101 1001010111 1011010101 11001010101 1111010101 0101011101 1101110101 01010100101 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 11001100101 0111111001 0101010101 1110010101 1111110001 1111010011 0111011101 1111011111 1011111101 0111011101 11110100101 1101011111 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 134
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', till, on, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, told, the, thrice, their, a are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Mother’s Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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