This is an analysis of The Mother's Lecture by Jean Blewett.

There's nothing, did you say, Reuben?
There's nothing, nothing at all,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadadefgfXdddadhDadiDidjDiddDbdcDidcDXaiaaehekjgjdibiadkD
  • Stanza lengths: 60,
  • Metre: 11001110 1101011 11001011 010101 10101111 111101 1111010 011101 01111110 110101 10101110 1110101 01010101 1011001 11111111 01111001 01010101 1010111 01010010 1110111 010111101 111111 10110111 1110111 11011111 1111101 11110001 1110111 110110111 1001001 01111011 1110111 110001101 11001011 10111001 1110111 10010111 0101101 11010101 1110111 11010110 1111011 11011101 1110101 01010110 1110110 11001110 0010001 01010100 110101 0111010 110101 11001110 111111 11011110 1101011 1111110 0111101 11011110 1110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

nothing, there's, your, you've, to, and

Anaphora

there's, the, you've