This is an analysis of the poem Rubens' Innocents that begins with:
IF all those tumbling babes of heaven,
Plump cherubim with blown cheeks, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdcededfXfXgdgdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001010 1100011 110111110 11010101 1100111010 110000111 11010111 11001111 101111010 100010111 110111010 11001101 11110101 110011101 110001001 01111100 110111110 11110101 1101001010 01001101 011101010 001001001 10011110 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 917
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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