This is an analysis of the poem Mother, This Is The Grief That Sorely Grieves My Heart that begins with:
Mother, this is the grief that sorely grieves my heart,
That even with Thee for Mother,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgc gabgfegega XfXfgdaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100001110111 11001110 1111101 110100011 1011001110111 11011111 11010 11100111 1111010 111001 110110110 11110 1011101 101111111001 101110111101 01010111 111101 1110100 1100 11011101 100101011 10010110110101 1111010111010 10100111101 10010101 10001101 01010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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, thou, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word taking is repeated.
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