This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Doll that begins with:
An infant is a selfish sprite;
But what of that? the sweet delight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXee ffggddee bhaaddhhffXiddjjii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11010101 100101001 01010111 11010101 11110101 11010111 10010100 01011101 11010101 11110011 11111111 100101110 100101010 01000101 11000101 11010111 11010001 10010100 01010000 11010001 01010101 10010101 10010011 11011101 01010001 11010101 00110111 010111100 010011001 10011101 11010111 01010001 11010101 11010111 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of The Broken Doll;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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