This is an analysis of the poem A Nursery Darling that begins with:
A Mother's breast:
Safe refuge from her childish fears, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbccca daaaeeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 11000101 01010101 11010100 11011101 01011100 10010001 011101 0101 10010111 01110001 01010101 10010101 01010101 110100100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; childish is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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