This is an analysis of the poem A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London that begins with:

Never until the mankind making
Bird beast and flower...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc ddedde fbffbf bgbbgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101110 11110 1001110010 101001110 10110 01001100010 111100101 1000101 1010100101 1111011001 11111 0011001001 01001100011 11110 01100100011 1101010001 01010 100010011 1001111010 10011 010110110010 101010010 00101 1001110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.

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