This is an analysis of the poem At The Sick Children's Hospital that begins with:

A little crippled figure, two big pathetic eyes,
A face that looked unchildish, so wan it was and wise;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdXccddcceeffggddhheegXcc hhccddcchXhhcciihhhhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010110101 0111100110111 11010111110111 1101011011111011 11111100111111 11011101110101 11110101110111 01111111111111 11011111110111 11101111010111 11111101010111 01011101010101 1101010110001 01011111110001 1111110111101 11011111111111 10011111111001 10110101110101 11011111111101 01011101110101 11111111111101 11011100011111 11110101110111 00011101110111 11110101111111 1011110110101 010010111110111 11111111111101 00011101111111 110010001110011 1101110110101 11111111011101 1101110111101 11110101011111 1001110111111 11011111111101 11111111111111 11111111110101 1110010110111 11001111110101 11110111011001 11010101110001 11100111111101 11111111110101 10110111011111 11111111100101 11111111110101 11011101111111 11111111111110 11010101011101 11010111110111 11010111111101 111101011101110 111111000101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 346
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, my, to, ', she, her, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, for, my are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.

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  • summary of At The Sick Children's Hospital;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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