On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave by Henry King: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On Two Children Dying Of One Disease, And Buried In One Grave that begins with:

Brought forth in sorrow, and bred up in care,
Two tender Children here entombed are: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXddcXXaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 110101011 11110111101 1111010111 1111010100 0101101101 01010111001 1101110101 1111111101 1101011100 1101010101 1011010100 1111110111 0101001001 1111011111 1111010100 1111011101 1101111111 1101111111 1100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 886
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, their are repeated.

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