This is an analysis of the poem To A Child that begins with:
I love to look on that eye of blue,
For tears have not yet worn a channel through;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddef eegg hhef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111101 1111110101 101110111 111010111 0101101101 010010101 010010111 1101111011 110010111 100101101 10110100101 100110100 111111111 1010111100 1111100101 110110101 1111100101 110110101 100100111 110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To A Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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