This is an analysis of the poem Nurse's Song (Innocence) that begins with:
When voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb aded efef egcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001011101 11001101 110110111 1101101 11111001011 1010101 1111111101 101001001 1111110011 1110101 0100101011 101111001 11111101101 111101 0101111011 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come is repeated.
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- summary of Nurse's Song (Innocence);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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