This is an analysis of An Indian Mother About To Destroy Her Child by James Montgomery.
Awhile she lay all passive to the touch
Of those small fingers, and the soft, soft lips…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabccdb eefgaagdghefcXdi bXeXXbgjhfXji
- Stanza lengths: 8,16,13,
- Metre: 0111110001 0111010111 0100010101 1101001101 1101010001 11010001010 11000101110 01010111110 1111010011 110101010100 1101010111 1001010101 101100100001 111000011010 1101010101 11110011010 1111010011 1111010111 0101010101 11110101110 0101010111 11101101100 10110101010 01000010001 1101000101 1100111010100 1011010101 1101010101 1100111101 0101101010 11110101110 1001110011 1101011101 00110001010 1111011101 1001010101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
she, her, to, his, as, it
