This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Old Mother that begins with:
I RISE in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111111 10100101011 111111111 1110100111 1011111011 001001011011 1111100100 1110011101 111101111 101001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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