This is an analysis of the poem Mother, Am I Thine Eight-Months Child? that begins with:
Mother, am I Thine eight-months child?
Thy red eyes cannot frighten me!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXbXbc aXcXabb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 11110101 11011101 11010101 11111100 110010101 010111011 010111010 1111011 10010111 011011 11111010111 0100010101010101 11001100 11111101 11101101 11101111 01010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i is repeated.
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