This is an analysis of the poem The Child's Music Lesson that begins with:
Why weep ye in your innocent toil at all?
Sweet little hands, why halt and tremble so?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc dcdcdcee fgfgfghh dididXdd jgXgjggg bXbkbkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101100111 1101111101 11001111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111111 1101010100111 001101111001 1111010101 1111011101 0101010111 1101010101 011010111 0101010101 110101001111 110101000101 1111011111 1110110111 1101000101 0101010100 1101011111 110100000101 111101010101 110111110101 1111111101 0101011101 11110010111 1101010111 1110010101 1101111110 111111011101 110101010001 1111111101 0101111101 11011101000 11010101000 1111010101 11011101001 110101111101 0101110110001 1100010111 1011110100 1111111101 1111010111 10101010111 1101111111 110111110011 111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, i, that, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words each, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Child's Music Lesson;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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