This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Of Motherhood Xlv that begins with:
Dearest, your mother feels (though dead) this birth—
Laughs at the fire within your shining eyes—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 11010011101 1111011101 1001100101 1101000101 1001011111 1011101011 1001010101 1110010001 0101010101 1011011111 0101001101 110010101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; your is repeated.
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