Analysis of The Singing Mother



I had a mother who sang to me,
Songs of faith and songs of grace,
Holiness spelt in every word,
Words of God sweetly rendered.

I had a mother who played the violin,
And sang songs of praise and glory,
For His goodness and blessings,
Sweetly sung with the violin strings.

I had a mother who played the Zeraphena,
The beats that give a heavenly tone,
Love of God through sound of music,
Lasting inspiration to the soul.

You may have truncats of wealth untold,
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold,
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a mother who sang to me.


Scheme Axbb cadd cxxx eeaA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 110101111 1110111 100101001 1111010 11010110001 01111010 1110010 101100011 110101101 011101001 11111110 10010101 11111101 1011001011 101111101 110101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 544
Words 107
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

This poem is about my mother who could sing and play musical instruments like violin and zeraphena.

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Written on October 20, 2005

Submitted by Jasonraj on July 21, 2021

Modified by Jasonraj on July 21, 2021

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Jesudason Atputharajah

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