This is an analysis of The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan.

In dreadful times of tears and war
She sails, a little fixed star,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba Xbccb ddXbX aXXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 01010111 1101011 11010111 010111001 100101 10111000 11010101 11110101 10011101 101100 11010011 010101001 00111111 11010111 111100 100010111 11010100 01010101 10010101 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 23

Anaphora

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