The Toys by Coventry Patmore: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Toys that begins with:

My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes
And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXbdbdcceebfefaaccbbggaabbXhhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111010111 10110101101 111101 0111100 0101110101 1101011101 110001 1111001 0101111101 001101 1101 100101110011 1101010101 1110101 01010101101 0101100101 111101 010011 111101110101 010011 111111 011111 111111011 110101 111000011 1111 110101 110100 110011 1111110001 111111 1001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 209
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of The Toys;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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