Analysis of Mother Wept
Joseph Skipsey 1832 (Northumberland) – 1903 (Gateshead)
Mother wept, and father sigh’d;
With delight a-glow
Cried the lad, “To-morrow,” cried,
“To the pit I go.”
Up and down the place he sped,
Greeted old and young,
Far and wide the tidings spread,
Clapp’d his hands and sung.
Came his cronies, some to gaze
Rapt in wonder; some
Free with counsel; some with praise;
Some with envy dumb.
“May he,” many a gossip cried,
“Be from peril kept;”
Father hid his face and sighed,
Mother turned and wept
Scheme | ABAB ACAC DEDE AAAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010101 10101 1011101 10111 1010111 10101 1010101 11101 1110111 10101 1110111 11101 11100101 11101 1011101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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