This is an analysis of the poem A Sick Child that begins with:
The postman comes when I am still in bed.
"Postman, what do you have for me today?"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cXbX dbXb cece Xbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111101 100111111100 1101110001 111111111 10101111101 0011001000 101110101 1011001110101 1111111010101 111101111001 111011101010 1001111101 011100000111 1111010111 01001110011 11011000111 100011111 11001111110 1011000101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, want, of are repeated.
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