This is an analysis of the poem Verses To A Child that begins with:
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O raise those eyes to me again... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXabccb X adadeed X babaaaa X bbbbffb X dadabba X abagffg X adadhhd X hbhbiib X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 11011100 11110111 11111101 01011111 01101101 1001111 1 110110101 11110100 11111101 11011101 11110111 110010101 110101 1 11110101 01010101 11111101 01001101 11010101 110010111 110010 1 11011101 01100101 11110111 010101001 111101101 11111111 111101 1 11011101 11110101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 110101 1 11011110 01110101 11111111 11110100 010100111 11010111 110100 1 11001101 11010111 11011101 11001101 010010101 11010011 010100 1 11110111 11110111 11111101 11110101 10111101 11010101 111101 100000100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, he, thee, like, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, like are repeated.
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