This is an analysis of the poem On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born that begins with:
I SAW where in the shroud did lurk
A curious frame of Nature's work; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefghhhbbeeiibbjjjfgfXfaakkllaammXnnnoonnooffddoooppffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 63,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100101 010010101 01001001 01010101 100101010 010101010 11001001001 11010001 10111111 01111111 10111101 11000100 10100111 11110111 1110101 1111101 1011101 11110101 01010011 11111110 111010010 001111010 111101110 11111001 1011101 1010101 1111101 01111100 01001101 10011110 11110111 1010101 11010101 01010101 11011101 00111101 10001011 0010001001 11011101 11011011 11110100 1101110010 10010111 1110101 01001100 1010101 1011111 1110101 1011101 1010111 1110101 1011101 1010111 11111110 10101110 1110101 1010101 01011101 1111101 1010011 1110101 11010101 0110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2267
- Average number of words per stanza: 389
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; she is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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