This is an analysis of the poem The Christening that begins with:
What shall I call
My dear little dormouse?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccCCddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111 111011 0111 1010111 101111001 10111 11 11 1101111001 10111001001 1101111001 1111111011 11111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on is repeated).
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- summary of The Christening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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