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
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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