This is an analysis of the poem Mother And Child that begins with:
By old blanched fibres of gaunt ivy bound,
The hollow crag towers under noon's blue height.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcabcb addaeXeee eeeefeafa Xgghihjij hffhkhiki allaaamam bkXbebaea hgghehbeb aaaanaeoX jccjbjobn pmmpappap akkaXagag feefeXkek jXejcjaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101001101 01011010111 1101010101 10011101100 1111100101 010101 1111100101 11110100101 11011010001 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001100111 1111110101 100110 1101001101 01000010011 1101011101 0111001101 1111111101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 110111 1001110111 1101110101 0101001101 0101010101 0101110101 1011011101 0111011101 110101110101 101101 01001110111 1111010111 1001110101 1101010101 0101000101 1101110001 1011011101 110101010010 100101 11011101001 10111101010 1111110001 0101110101 01111100101 01010100111 1111011101 1011010101 110101 01010010101 1101011101 11110100111 1101010001 1001011100 1101000110 0101011101 11011100101 010011 11010010001 0101110101 11010010101 1110110011 11001110111 11011100111 11001010001 00111101111 0101101 01110111001 0101000101 01011010101 0001001111 1100000101 1111110101 11001010101 1001000100 110001 1111010011 1101010001 111100011100 101111100010 1011010111 1001010101 11010101010 1011110101 1101010 1111110101 0101000100 1111000100 11111101101 1101010111 111000100101 0011000100 0110111001 110111 0110110101 0011010101 1111001111 1111110101 110101100010 01010101010 0101110101 1100110010100 100011 1111110111 1100110001 1001011111 10010110011 1001110101 11001000101 1100110100 11001111101 011010 11100011010 01011010111 101100101110 1101001101 110101111100 1011010101 1001101100 1011111101 011101 0111011001 0011100111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, some, of, to, thy, in, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, thou are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of Mother And Child;
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