This is an analysis of the poem A Child Of Mine that begins with:
I will lend you, for a little time,
A child of mine, He said....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdXdefcfdgXgXeceXgagdXXgXdgdabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 010111 11010111 111111 01011100 110111 10111111 110111 11010101 110101 11010100 110111 11010101 110101 11110111 110101 1101110 011101 10011111 110101 10111111 110111 111111 011101 11011101 1110010 11011111 010111 11010100 111111 11010011 010101 11010111 110111 11010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1127
- Average number of words per stanza: 219
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, or, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, we'll are repeated.
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- summary of A Child Of Mine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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