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

Lone played the child within the magic wood,
Where fountains sang and sunshine ever glowed;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabacbdbaefegXaXefaXbhfX XeeeibhXhejeXXXdbjgjgXkXalXXkddd kkakmnbnebXbiadXcbdblhfhmhbXdhnh ddadXfhf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,32,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101111101 1101110101 1111010101 1111011111 0101111111 1101010101 0111001111 1101010111 1100011011 1101100101 1111010101 1111011111 1111000101 11010010101 1101110110 1101010101 1101110101 1001110111 11110001010 1001011001 1001111101 1011100101 11110111100 1101010101 01011101001 1101110001 0111010111 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 1001110100 1101011101 11010001010 1011100101 1001111101 1111111001 01011101010 11110011100 0101110001 1111110001 0101111101 1101110001 1101111101 0101111111 0101000111 1111110001 0011110001 1111110101 1111000101 0101111111 0101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010101 0101000101 1001010111 0011110101 0101010001 1101010111 1111011101 0101010101 1111010101 0001010101 11010011111 0111111101 1111010111 1101010101 1011011001 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010111 0101110101 1001110101 0101111111 1111011101 1101010101 1111011100 1101101111 1101110101 1001001110 1101110101 1101001101 1001010101 0101110101 1000110111 1101110001 1001010101 1101110101 11011111110 1101000101 1101010101 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1049
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; with, ', and, to, his, her, my, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of The Child;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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