This is an analysis of the poem To A Child During Sickness that begins with:
SLEEP breathes at last from out thee,
My little patient boy; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc Xdeddcdc cfcfeded gfgffdfd Xhdhifif jkjkXiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 110101 1101011 110101 111111 011101 11110101 111101 110010010 110111 1101110 010101 0101001 111101 11111101 110010 10111011 101101 1101111 110011 111101 111101 11010100 011011 1110110 111101 1110110 110101 1110011 111101 11010101 111111 01111000 101001010001 0101010 111111 111101 010011 01110101 100101 11111110 010101 0101110 1100101 100111 110111 11010100 111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, , my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, my are repeated.
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