This is an analysis of Maternal Grief by William Wordsworth.
DEPARTED Child! I could forget thee once
Though at my bosom nursed; this woeful gain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeafghefccgXeXhhijdkdhbleacaedmebhbjeahhaljhjkgheXhhfdXihahgjXbXgakekadhdXbem
- Stanza lengths: 81,
- Metre: 0101110111 1111010101 1101011011 00110100001 01110100001 1001010111 1111110101 1011110111 1101110101 1111110001 1111010011 0111110001 1111010010 0111110101 0100110101 1100011110 0101010101 0101011101 11000011111 11001000111 1001110101 1001010101 1101010101 0101010011 1101000100 0110010101 1110010101 01010010101 00010001101 110110011001 0101110101 1101000111 1101011101 110000101 11000101001 101100101010 0001010011 1100010101 1011010101 11010100101 1001010011 0100010101 1100111001 0001010111 11011001001 0111010101 1111010101 11001000101 11001011101 1101000111 1001010101 0101110101 00110110011 0101010111 1001110101 01111100001 1011010001 0101011101 0101011101 1010111111 001011111001 1101011101 11010011101 1111010111 0101110101 0111100101 01001010011 01110000111 11010110101 0101010111 1101010101 0111001101 0101010001 111100101110 0101001101 0111011101 1101110001 11110001010 11110101010 1100100111 01010111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 81
Repeated words/phrases
their, of, and, he
Anaphora
and
