The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Sailor's Mother that begins with:

ONE morning (raw it was and wet---
A foggy day in winter time)... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa cdcdaa edeXcX cfcfff gbgbcc dcdcaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 01010101 01010111 11110101 0100010111 110101010111 01010011 11111101 11111101 11010011 1111110101 111001101101 10110111 10111111 01010011 010001111 11001110101 110101010101 11010011 110111001 11011101 01111101 11110101001 011111110111 01111100 11111111 11010100 01011101 1111110101 010110110101 10010101 11000111 11010101 11011111 1111111101 11001111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, she, he, bird, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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