This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On A Child that begins with:
Cruel the pang to hear the struggling sigh,
Watch o'er the faded cheek and closing eye;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010101001 11001011101 1101000101 0101011101 111111110010 0101000101 01110101001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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