This is an analysis of the poem The Foster Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Fragment that begins with:
Ter. But that entrance, Selma?
Sel. Can no one hear? It is a perilous tale!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbXebdfbegdXfhXdeifdeebjfXidhgebhccfcXfkgchiaclXjfgbXieflkcjfggdfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010 111110001001 111 111010101 1110010101 1101011111 0101111111 11010100110 0111110101 1101010101 0101111101 1111011111 1111011101 1101110101 010111100 1101011101 1101011111 1101100101 1101010101 010101101010 0111010101 01011010001 0111110101 01111101011 11110011011 11010101010 110101111 1111111111 10111101001 1101010101 1111110101 0101100101 1101011111 01101111001 11110110010 1101010110 0111000101 101100111110 11111111010 01011111010 01001001101 1101010111 11001111010 1101011101 11111101010 1101010101 1101010111 11001111010 0111100101 1101111100 1111010111 01110010101 1111010101 101101 11011 11110100101 010110001001 110101 111111 011100110100 01011001010 1111110101 1110010111 1101010111 0100100101 11011111011 1011011101 1111011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2945
- Average number of words per stanza: 559
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, read are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
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