This is an analysis of A Mother's Wail by Henry Timrod.
My babe! my tiny babe! my only babe!
My single rose-bud in a crown of thorns!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abcdb Aefgh afbdi cgjge fkglb ebcfj agehg lbeXli jbmmn Xgnbk
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,5,5,
- Metre: 1111011101 1101100101 1110110101 1111010101 1001000111 1111011101 0101010101 1111000111 1101011111 0101010001 1111111101 1111011001 11011001001 1101011101 0101000101 0111011101 0111010101 1111110111 11111001111 1101111111 1111110111 1111110111 1111010111 1111111101 0011000101 1011010101 0101010011 0111010111 1101010111 1101000001 11001101011 1011011101 0101011101 1111010111 1111010111 0100010101 11010010011 1101010111 1101011101 1111110001 11110100111 0111010111 0011010101 1001000101 10111000101 1101010001 0001011111 0111110111 0001010101 1111110101 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 51
Repeated words/phrases
my, of, babe, and, o, once, more, to, yet
Anaphora
my, forgive, o, to
