This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Child Once that begins with:
There was a child once.
He came to play in my garden;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXadaXdbXXbcddXbXeXd AbceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11010110 1111110 1011111101011 111110010 11101001011 1011001001 11111101 101010101110 1111001001 1111010010101 1100101 011010010 1101011111111 010101 11001110101 010101001 1101000010 1111001011 111010 11010110101110 11011101011 11011 11101010110 111110 11111110 111101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, i, his, him, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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