This is an analysis of the poem On A Dead Child that begins with:
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac deed fggf heeh aiia ijji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110100111111 01001111111 111111 01101011010111 110101101110 01001010100 110111 11001010101110 011111100110 110011101001 101101 00110100101010 111111110110 1010010111011 1101110 1110110111100 111111101110 1111011011101 101111 11110111010 11010110111011101 00111111001000 0100111 11101011101110101 110111111011 010101111001 01001101 101111111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; and, thy, thee, have, us are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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