Analysis of Ode to Mothers
Trust is commodity to be spared,
And not too hastily be shared.
Wickedness is all around,
Hateful people are abound.
Greedy souls so dark and spiteful,
Sell you out for a dollars fistful.
Be they husbands, be they wives,
Friends, or comrades, random guys.
Sons and daughters are your bane,
When greed awakens in their veins.
Grinning to your face, with full teeth,
Turn your back, knives get unsheathed.
From which direction they assail?
Stay on guard, you may prevail.
Whom to trust on this blue earth?
Only mothers, who gave you birth.
Scheme | AABB CCXX XXXA DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 110100111 01110011 1001101 1010101 10111010 111101010 1110111 111101 1010111 11010011 10111111 111111 11010101 1111101 1111111 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on May 05, 2022
Submitted by RosenkrantzA on May 05, 2022
Modified by RosenkrantzA on May 06, 2022
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