This is an analysis of the poem For A Child that begins with:

E. H. M.
Nov. 17th, 1890—Feb. 13th, 1904... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bbXcdd eedfXfgfaagaaddd cchcchiieeeeheddD effXjkfjbfdblbbkkbbdmmddDD mmccmdccdlkc cffdddDD ekekekddkjmmjdDD dedecchhhcXcXebebffdlnndDdMMECCEOOEeHHNNFFDDDXMMECCEOOEeHHNNFnFDdD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,16,17,26,12,8,16,66,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 01011101011 111 111101 1001100 111101 1001 1101010101 011101 1011010101 11010101 0111010111 110101 01111101 1001001101 1110011101 011101 111101 1111111001 1001 1011010001 010101 1101 1101010101 1001101101 10010101001 1110111111 1101010101 0101010001 1110010011 0111110101 1011 110101 1101010101 1111 0001001 1111010101 1101 010101 1001 1101010101 011101 1111110101 1111010101 1101011100 01010101010 0111 10110101001 11110111010 101100010010 0111001101 1100011010 11010101110 0101011100 10010010 11010011110 11010001000 010100101001 011111 100101 1101011101 011101 110101 0111010110 0101111101 1001 1101010101 1100110011 1101110101 100101 111101 1001010001 101111 1100011111 1111011101 111111 110100 0101010011 11110100101 1101001 1111 110010111 1100111011 11111 1001101101 1001 1101010101 0101 1011111001 1011001101 1011110111 1111111101 1011101101 101111110 0101101101 1011111101 11111101110 110111 11010100001 11010101010 1101 1001 1101010101 1111011 10110100101 11011 0111011101 1110011101 0101 11111100111 01001110101 100101 01110101 01110 11111101 1111010 11011101 010111 11111011 111001 1111 11011111 1101 01010100 101101 11010111 1111 1001 1101010101 0101101 101101 0111010001 110101 011101 1101010101 1001110011 011111 1101010111 0101 1111 111101 1101 1001011101 111111 010101 1101 1001 1101010101 0101101 101101 0111010001 110101 011101 1101010101 1001110011 011111 1101010111 1001 1111 111101 1101 1001011101 111111 1101010101 010101 1101 1001 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • 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; red, night, praise, you, and, now, day are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words though, now, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day, him, night, me are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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