This is an analysis of the poem To One Of The Author's Children that begins with:
On His Birthday, 27 August, 1825.
THOU wak'st from happy sleep to play ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa baba bcbcXcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11010101 010111 01110111 010101 11110111 011101 100100101 110101 11010111 111101 10110111 0111101 10010101 1001110 11110100 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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