This is an analysis of A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter by Henry Timrod.
Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,
My own dead mother gazed upon my face,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fXfX cdcd fafa ghgh icic jfjf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0111011101 1111010111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101111111 11110100101 1001110101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 0111011101 1111000101 11010111000 1101010101 1011001101 1111111101 11001001101 1001011101 1111010101 0111010011 1001011101 1001010111 0100100101 1101010111 0101110111 1100110111 1101000101 1101010101 1101111101 1101011111 0111111101 1111011011 10101100101 1111011101 1001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, thee
