This is an analysis of the poem The Sick Child that begins with:
CHILD.
O Mother, lay your hand on my brow!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc deebb affggff dhhaaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110111111 110101111 10011111 111100111 10 11110101 10011111 10110111 110010111 1 101011011 100111111 11111101 110111101 111111111 111110101 10 10010101 10110110 11011111011 0110100101 111111001 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mother, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, why, nothing, some are repeated.
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