Analysis of To My Mother
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you-
You who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you
In setting my Virginia's spirit free.
My mother- my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111001001 01010011010 1101110111 11010011110 1111111111 1111110101 01111111011 0101010101 11011101110 110101111 11010111110 01110101011 1101001111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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