This is an analysis of the poem To A Child that begins with:
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee,
With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccdeefggf hhbfbbfhbiibbccbhjjgXghXghhk iihhbhhbdadabbiii bbcbcgXcg bbgjjgbbhkkh aidiaaaccaccccbbcXfkkccbbadbbggllkkjj fhhXhhghhggXggibmmnbii jjbggbkkiifXbb googfffnngg gghhlliiaffdiiXgllni iXiijhhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,28,17,9,12,37,22,14,11,20,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011101 0101011101 11010101 1101 010001111 0101001100 01000101 01010101 010111 110101001 0100100101 001100 01010101 11001101 0101000101 100101 100001001 11011101 011101101 10110001 1101 10001 1101 11001101 0101 01011101 01110001 110010001 11111101 110010101 01110101 11010101 01010101 01001010011 011111 01010110 01001101 10000101 01010101 0101000101 11110101 11011001 1101 1101 0111001 11100101 1011001 11010101 11000100 11010001 01101100 11110101 111101 110101 0111011101 1111010101 11010101 11110101 1100111 0101101 1011 1001101 0010111 10010110 111010 0011101001 1110111 11100101 01000101 11011111 010000101 01000101 11111001 1000101 1000101 1010101 11011001 1010111 11111101 11000101 11010100 11010111 11110111 1100010101 01111111 11010101 010100111 110101 010101 0101110111 11110011101 11000111 111101 0101001101 01001010101 11010100 101101 11011101 1101000011 11001001101 11110010101 11001010101 1101010001 0101001101 00100010100 01010000101 1100010101 1101001101 01111100101 0101011101 1101011101 1101000101 0101011001 1100011111 1101010101 11111100 01110111 01000101 10010100 11010111 101101 1100001001 0001010101 110101 110101 00110111 00110111 11010101 110101001 100111 101001001 01010111 10110101 10010010 11010101 01111101 10010101 1101000111 11011101 10111101 01010101 110010001 010010100 11010101 010010111 110100011 11010011 010011010 011101000 00110111 01110100 10110101 10010101 00111101 010001001 01010101 10010101 10110001 100101010 0100110010 11010101 01011111 10010101 11010101 11010011 010101001 01010011 01010101 00110001 10101101001 10100110 01011111 01010001 11000100 11100001 10010101 110010111 010001001 100100111 101100101 010001010 11010101 01101101 10110101 01010101 010110001 11010001 11000101 11100101 01110101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 579
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 191
- 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; as, and, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, into, a are repeated.
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- summary of To A Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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