This is an analysis of the poem The All-Mother's Awakening that begins with:
To-day the still, deep mind of the Earth
Has steeped in longing her wistful eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba baab cccc deed effe ghhg bffb hiiX XjjX faaf bffb kccX jeXjXbkkh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111001 110100101 010101101 110100101 011101111 011100111 010100101 0110101010 110110111 010110101 010110101 110110101 110111101 110110101 011100111 110100101 011101111 110101111 111100101 110100101 011110111 110100101 010100101 1101011001 110100111 011101111 111110111 110100100 100100101 110100101 110100101 11101011010 110101101 01011001001 010100101 110110101 11101111101 011110001 011101101 111110100 111100111 111100101 111101101 111100100 1111110101 110101101 110101001 1101001110 111110111 111010111 011100100 111111111 111100101 110100101 100100101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, from, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, i, we are repeated.
The author used the same words all, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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