This is an analysis of the poem Childhood that begins with:
Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,
A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefghhddXihhjjkkhhiiXlgfhhccjjkkmmmmlliiminnmmoopphhkkllggppkkqqkkeebbkkgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 82,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111010 01010111010 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011111 0111110111 0100011001 1101011101 1101110100 1011000111 0101100101 1110011001 0101111111 1101101101 1100111100 0111010101 1100010101 0111010111 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 1011001111 0101010101 1100110001 1001011100 1001010100 1001111011 0101011111 11001110101 0101011100 1101000111 1111110111 1101001111 1101010011 1111111111 1101111101 11011100111 1111110011 110111001 1111011111 1101111111 1101011111 1101110101 11110000101 1111111001 1100110101 1111110111 1111111101 1111111111 1111010111 0111001101 11101011 110101101 1111111101 1111010111 0111011010 011010101 0111011111 0010010101 0101010111 0101111011 110101101 1101010111 1111111111 1101111101 1111010111 1111010001 1101111111 1101110001 1101010101 1100111011 110111110 1101111101 1101110011 01010010101 1001110111 1101110101 1101111111 1110110111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3543
- Average number of words per stanza: 663
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, or, i, my, no, nor, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, when, in, my, i, from, a, what are repeated.
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- summary of Childhood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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