Analysis of A Mothers Gift
Mountains, Rivers, Canyons, Trees,
Its Vast what lies between.
A Mothers Hand that reaches for a
Daughters heart that bleeds.
Something yearned and wanting,
Yet stands a wall of stone.
Will never know a Mothers gift
From which a Daughter grows....
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 111101 010111010 10111 101010 110111 11010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
This poem is about a Daughter that yearns for her Mothers Love and never gets it.
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Written on December 24, 2002
Submitted by virginia_o on January 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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