This is an analysis of the poem David’s Child that begins with:
IN face of a great sorrow like to death
How do we wrestle night and day with tears; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdXdcdbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100110101 1111011101 1111111101 0111110111 0101010111 0111101011 0111110100 1111010111 01011111101 1001110111 1111100101 1101111101 0111011101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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