Analysis of An Ode: For My Mother
Dearest mother, I wish to write to thee
On this motherly day of love and glee
To tell you how much I appreciate
The role that you’ve played in shaping my fate.
For, without your patient, loving way,
I would most certainly have gone astray.
Yet with all your strength (and some of your genes)
I successfully made it past my teens,
Through those times and on to the point in life
Filled with happiness, and a loving wife.
A wife with a quiet and gentle strength
That is right in line with your wavelength.
I’ll add her to my ever-growing list
Of the things I love that, through you, exist.
Things which, like you, there is no just other
(For, to me, you’re a most perfect mother).
And so, on this day of celebration
Of mothers all over god’s creation,
I would just like to simply stop and say —
I love you Mother; every single day.
-- by ThoughtsFromB4
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEXXFFGGHHCC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111111 1110011101 111111010 0111101011 101110101 1111001101 1111101111 1010011111 1110110101 1110000101 0110100101 11101111 1101110101 1011111101 1111111110 1111010110 011111010 1101101010 1111110101 11110100101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 861 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted by thoughtsFromB4 on May 11, 2024
Modified by thoughtsFromB4 on May 31, 2024
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