This is an analysis of the poem The Child Of Earth that begins with:
I.
FAINTER her slow step falls from day to day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ababcXcXbXX dedeafafbXX gfgfgdgdbXX XhXhXhahbXa chchififbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,11,11,11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1001110101 11010101001 1111010111 1110011111 11010001001 1011110001 1101110101 11110011111 1111111101 1110011111 1 00111000101 0101010001 01001110101 1101010001 11110110111 0101010111 1101000101 1111010001 1101111111 1110011111 1 10011101001 1011110101 0101010101 1010110101 1101010111 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010111 1110011111 1 01110110111 10110001001 1011011111 1011010101 1111011100 1101010111 11101011111 1011010111 1101111101 1110011111 1 001010101001 010101001011 0111010101 0101010001 1101011101 1011010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101111101 11110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Child Of Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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