This is an analysis of the poem Infant Eyes that begins with:

Blood of my blood, bone of my bone,
Heart of my being's heart,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dXdX XXef bdbdXfefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 101101 11001101 101111 01110011 110101 01001101 100011 11110101 111101 1100101101 010100 11110110 1111010 01001101 110111 11110101 010101 11011101 010101 11010111 101101 11010001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.

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