Lines To My Mother, Who Died When I Was About Two Years Old by Thomas Cowherd: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lines To My Mother, Who Died When I Was About Two Years Old that begins with:

I had a mother once, and her dear name
Has power even now to thrill my very frame,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgghhii cbXXgghhjjcckk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011011 110101011101 1111011101 1111010001 1111110101 11110011101 1111010111 1111110001 1111011111 1101010101 11011111001 1111010101 1111011101 11010110101 1111110111 11001000101 1111011101 1111001101 11111101001 1111111100 01110100011 0111000101 1001011101 1011000101 1111101101 1101110101 1101010111 11010111001 1101011111 1101001111 11010101010 01110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; i, to are repeated.

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