This is an analysis of the poem Lessons For A Child that begins with:
I.
There breathes not a breath of the summer air...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbacddeeffgghhaahhaaaeeaXeia dddd X aaaaajjccddffffXXkkggacllmmccll kkddaaa fefefff eXie X iiii bebe hehXXgdgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,28,4,1,31,7,7,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110100101 1010010101 101001101001 100100100 11101101001 110100101 10110101111 1101010011 1010101101 010101011011 011011111 1100100101 10100111101 1010101011 1010111101 110100101 101101101 1010010111 111101011101 1111101111 110110111 11111101111 10101101011 1011011001 1110110 1 1 1 10111111011 001011111 110110111 10101101001 1 0110101 0100101 0100101 0110101 010101 010101 1011001 01101010 1011010 1001001 00101001 1001001 0100101 110101 1001001 1001001 101101 1101011 100101 00101011 101001 1001001 101100 1100101 1010111 01010010 101010010 11001110 1001010 1101101 1101001 1101111 1011111 1111101 0010111 110011011 101110011 100101001 11111111 10010111 00111101 00010111 01100011 1001111111 111111 0110111011 10100101000 1110100111 110101 1 11100101 10111 110110101 111100 11100101 1101001 1101110111 110111 1111101101 111101 010101101 0010101 11100101 1010111 010110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, that, he, cares, in, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Lessons For A Child;
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