This is an analysis of the poem The Mother Of A Poet that begins with:
She is too kind, I think, for mortal things,
Too gentle for the gusty ways of earth; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcacddee ffegghhii jfXfbbf kjkhccjhhhlllfflammeaXXeXcchfjjaafbllbalalhfhfilil
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,7,50,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011111101 1101010101 1100011101 110111 1101011101 0101010101 00111010111 1111000101 1001011111 011101 1101110111 110111 110111 1001011101 010100 100111 1010101 1101011101 10010100001 11011001010 1101010101 11010101100 1101011101 101101 100101 11010010101 11110111001 01100001010 110111 00111101110 100111 1100101 11111101010 011101 1001001 11000101010 100111 011101 1100011101 100111 010101 1011011111 10011101 110111110 101101110 0111011101 10111101 0010100 10100101 0111010111 1111011111 100101 1001010001 1101010101 11000101010 0101100010 010101 011101 0101010001 100101 100101 010111 11001100101 100111 100101 001101 1101 101101 110011 001101 100111 10010011110 1101010110 11110111010 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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