This is an analysis of the poem My Little Boy That Died that begins with:
Look at his pretty face for just one minute !
His braided frock and dainty buttoned shoes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC daacc Xeecc dfdfccXbcbccC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111101 0101110101 011101001100 11110101101 111011 110111 110010111110 0101010101 111100110101101110101 111101 111111 11110101010 11110010111 1101111111010001010111 1101101 111111 11110111010 1101110101 10110111110 1111111011 101101 101111 111111010010 1011010111 010001101010 1111010101 1111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, i, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word died at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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