This is an analysis of The Mother by Francis Joseph Sherman.
The long dark night crawled slowly on;
I waited patiently,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXab c dcd ef ef cfX f fgfg eheh b gbg bf Xbf
- Stanza lengths: 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,1,3,2,3,
- Metre: 01111101 110100 10110101 111100 01011101 110101 110101101 110111 110111111 0101010 01110111 0101010 011110001 100101 01001100 0101101 010101001 100111 01110101 110101 01010011 110011 10110100 1011101 11101111 110111 11010111 01011 10111101 010100 11110111 110011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 38
Repeated words/phrases
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