Analysis of Mothers Bell



Mothers bell wrung thrice
An hour of need
Drop your doing
Tend the hour

Mother’s bell wrung thrice
last century
the century of greed
mother told me

Mother’s bell wrung thrice
No more last night
Idling on the shelf
Wringing in my ear

Mother, if I wrung your bell
Thrice, this century
drop your undoing
tend me
in the century
Of need.


Scheme Abcx Adbd Axxx xdcddb
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 11011 1110 1010 10111 1100 010011 1011 10111 1111 100101 10011 1011111 11100 11010 11 00100 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 320
Words 62
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 16

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Submitted by JohhnyO on August 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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