This is an analysis of To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe.

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdbdbee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01111001001 01010001010 1101110101 1101001101000 11111111111 1111110101 11110111011 0101010101 11011101110 1101001111 11000111110 11110101011 1101000111 1100111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

you, mother

Anadiplosis

you