This is an analysis of the poem Grief that begins with:
Grief is like a child,
Led with relentless hand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacbca deaedaeada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 100101 101111 110011 110101 101101 1111001 110101 110111 010011 0101001 101101 1101001 1010011 110101 111011 110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Grief;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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