This is an analysis of My Mother by Ann Taylor.
Who sat and watched my infant head
When sleeping on my cradle bed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaB cccB cccB cccB dddBXcccB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11111101 11011101 11010101 110 11110111 11011101 11111111 110 11110101 11110111 11010101 110 11110100 01001101 11110101 110 11011101 10111101 11110111 110 11110111 11011011 11011101 110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, to, i
Anaphora
and
