This is an analysis of the poem Mother Of Exiles that begins with:

What far--off trouble steals
In soft--blown drifts of glimmering rain?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaccdcdcXc ecec fegfXeaaaaghXghfgfgfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,4,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111101 011101001 100011 1100111101 0101011101 010101001 0111010011 1101110101 101111 1011010111 1011110101 1011011101 11010111101 1111110101 1111110111 0101100111 01010111 1101111101 1011010101 01001110011 010101 01011100100 100011 1001010101 101001 0101010011 101101 1011 1001010001 01011011010 1111001001 1100010111 1101110001 1100110101 1111110011 0100011111 111001 1101110001 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; what, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, o are repeated.

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