This is an analysis of the poem The Child-Mother that begins with:
Heavily slumbered noonday bright
Upon the lone field, glory-dight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccb ddaeea ffghhg iibjjb cckaak llkccX cclaal iiaeea aaaeea cchaemah bbnkkb iimbbj iiakka aXXook kkciic ggcggc ggcppc kkjiiXbX bbheeh cckbnk qqiqqX ffeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101 01011101 010101 010101010 1100101010 110101 10011101 11111111 010111 110100011 01011101 1101001 11110101 11010100 011011 01110111 11010101 100101 11110101 11010011 111111 11111101 01010111 111111 11010101 11010101 111001 10110101 10010101 1110110 11010101 010010101 110101 11010101 10011111 1101110 11011101 01010001 011101 11010111 11111101 100001 10011101 10110101 010101 110110001 1001101 110101 11010111 10111101 111101 01010101 01110111 110011 11011101 11010111 110101 10010111 111 10 011 010101 01110101 01011101 1101010 110010101 110111001 1001110 110100010 11010111 11001110 11100101 11010111 11010010 11110111 110100101 111011 11010101 10010101 110111 11011111 01001101 110100 01011101 01010101 010101 100100101 11010101 110111 11011101 010100111 011111 10010101 01010101 010111 11010101 01011001 110101 11110101 11010101 110101 01110101 11000101 1101001 01011111 01110111 111111 110011101 01011101 11011 1 010 010111001 11011111 110111 11011111 11110101 111111 10110011 10100101 0010101 01110101 10110100 111101 01111101 11010101 111101 11010111 101010101 1011110 11010101 11010101 011001 11010111 11010101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 136
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, baby, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, and, the, a, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Child-Mother;
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