This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of An Infant that begins with:
Blest Babe! it at length has withdrawn,
The Seraphs have rock'd it to sleep; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adad aeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101 01011001 01011101011 11011001 01001001 11001001 10101011011 01001001 01011011 11101001 11101111011 11001011 110010010 01001101 110010010110 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; it is repeated.
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