This is an analysis of the poem Death Of An Infant that begins with:
Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow,
And dash'd it out. There was a tint of rose... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcebeXdfafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1111011101 1101110101 1111110101 1011010111 1101010001 1001111100 0111010111 01010001001 11011001001 0101110101 10010010101 0101011101 1111001101 1111011111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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