Analysis of A Mother's Name.
A Mother's Name.
I love the sound! The sweetest under Heaven,
That name of mother, - and the proudest, too.
As babes we breathe it, and with seven times seven
Of youthful prayers, and blessings that accrue,
We still repeat the word, with tender steven.
Dearest of friends! dear mother! what we do
This side the grave, in purity of aim,
Is glorified at last by thy good name.
But how forlorn the word, how full of woe,
When she who bears it lies beneath the clod.
In vain the orphan child would call her so, -
She comes not back: her place is up with God.
The wintry winds are wailing o'er the snow;
The flowers are dead that once did grace the sod.
Ah, lose not heart! Some flowers may fade in gloom,
But Hope's a plant grows brightest on the tomb!
Scheme | A BCBCBCAA DCDEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 11010101010 1111000101 111110110110 1101010101 11010111010 1011110111 1101010011 110111111 1101011111 1111110101 0101011101 1111011111 01011101001 01011111101 11111101101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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