This is an analysis of the poem To A Child that begins with:
Whenas my life shall time with funeral tread
The heavy death-drum of the beaten hours,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadXdXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111101001 01011001010 10011011111 10111101110 1111111111 1101000101 1111111111 0111101001 1111010101 110000100100 1101110111 1111010001 1011010111 1001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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