This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough that begins with:
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O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXbXacc X XdeddXb X eXeeXcc X dbdbbff a bXbXXgg a deXXfdd X XhXhhbb X eXeiibb aX X dbXbbfe c jcjccdd a bdbddkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,2,1,7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 110101101110 1101110100 10110011010 1101111101 111010011101 1011100101 1101111000101 1 1111000100 110110100101 11010111 0111111101 11010111001 0110011101 110101010111 1 110101101 11010000101 1101111101 1101011101 1101000111 11100001101 1001101001101 1 11110100011 1101001001 100101011 1101111001 1101010101 11011001010 1011011101110 1 1111101111 1111010111 111101011 100100111 111111101 1111001101 011001101101 1 0111111101 0100111111 11110111100 1001111101 10010010110 1111011101 110111011111 1 1111100101 0101011011 11001010110 1110110101 10011100101 011111101 0111010111001 1 1111111101 0101011111 1101010111 11111101 111101111 1101001101 11011010110 111111111010001 1101110011010011 1 111001011 1101110011 0101100111 1101011101 1001110111 11010101110 010101110101 1 1111111101 0110111100 0101111111 0111011001 11010100100 011111011 111101110111 1 1101001101 0101011001 1101011101 1100110111 1101010111 00111011011 110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, his, or, wert, thou, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words young, or, to are repeated.
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