This is an analysis of the poem To The Poor that begins with:

Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scorn
Of fellow-men to happier prospects born,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbgghheeXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001110101 01010100101 11110100101 1011011111 11010101101 1101000101 1101010101 1110010011 1101011100 1101011101 11110111010 11110101010 11110101001 1111010101 11111101001 1101011101 1111111101 1101011101 1001001101 1101110101 01010101000 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 995
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.

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