This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Child that begins with:
A small house with a dog in front ...
O my love! Tonight, this rose is wet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbXX acd cdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01100101 111010101 001110101 110100101 0101111101 0011111010 111010111 1111111001 1011101100 001111001101 1111100011 1101000101 011111011 0111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Dead Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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