This is an analysis of the poem A Child's Laughter that begins with:
ALL the bells of heaven may ring,
All the birds of heaven may sing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccccb ddddbeeeebXccccdddddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 10101011 10111101 1011111 111010 1011111 1010101 1011101 1010101 101110 1111011 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010010 1111111 1010101 1010101 1010101 101110 1010101 1011111 10110111 10100101 111110 0010101 0010011 1011101 1011111 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; all, may, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light is repeated).
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- summary of A Child's Laughter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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