This is an analysis of the poem A Mother's Lament For Her Son's Death that begins with:
FATE gave the word, the arrow sped,
And pierc'd my darling's heart;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 111101 10110111 110101 11010101 0110001 11010111 110101 01010001 1001001 11111101 010111 11111101 111111 11110111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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