This is an analysis of the poem The Sons Of Martha that begins with:
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXX XXcc ddXX ccXX Xdee aaeeXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101110100101 101010101100010110101 10111010110111100101 01110110110110111 0011010100100111001 0011101010001110101 00111011100011001110 1001101010010101111 110100110110010101 1011101101110101101 1101110010100100111 10101011010100101101 11011110111111001010 110101111111001110 101111111100001001 1111101001111111100 0101001100011100101 110101010100101101 0101001011001001001 1100110011100110101 1111111010010010111 11111010010011111111 1001101011001101011 1011011111101101001 1101110101011111 100101000111010111 1101001010110100101 110101010001101101 1010101111110101111 1100001101101010101 111011101111100101 11111001011011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 79 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sons, of, and, her, it, their, care, that, they, to, him, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, they are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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