This is an analysis of The Emigrant Mother by William Wordsworth.

ONCE in a lonely hamlet I sojourned
In which a Lady driven from France did dwell;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xababcbc dedeff e gghhebebee X iieXbfbfee X eejjfdfdkk X eeiXjejehh e ffeehjhjjj e eeiieaeacc X ffllmbmbdd X nneejijieeX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,11,
  • Metre: 10010101100 01010100101 0111010111 0101011101 0101001101 1111010101 00110010111 1100111111 1101010101 0111001101 10000110101 1111100111 1101111111 1101000101 1 111100010 110110110 11011111 11010101 11110101 11100101 11010011 11110101 01110110 110100101 1 10010111 11110111 01110111 10101100 11011111 11011101 11110111 11010011 00110101 11111001 1 11010111 11010101 11101111 11110111 01011101 11010101 01101111 01011101 01100111 11000111 1 11110101 11110111 110111001 1111010010 11111101 11111111 11110111 110010101 11110111 11010101 1 11111101 11011111 11010011 01110101 11011111 11010101 11111011 11011011 11011110 11110100 1 11111101 01010111 11011111 010100101 10010101 01110111 11110101 11011101 11010111 10110111 1 111010101 11110100 11111111 11111101 11011111 11001110 11111111 11011011 10011111 11010001 1 11111101 010001001 01011101 11010101 110101110 11111101 11110101 11010101 01010110 11111111 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 18
  • Lines: 103

Repeated words/phrases

in, thou, no, thy, and, i

Anaphora

mine

Anadiplosis

no