Analysis of A Mother
A woman , A Mother ...
Holds within her heart
All the pain she can
Never to impart.
The pain she feels
Makes her heart reel
She hides it all inside
Fearing to open wide.
Her heart to anyone
Afraid it will burst
Wondering who will be
Hurt the worst.
Faith S. Hudson
October 4, 2006
| Scheme | A B X B X X C C D E X E D A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 10101 10111 10101 0111 1011 111101 101101 01110 01111 100111 101 1110 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 309 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 15 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on April 17, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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