This is an analysis of the poem A Girl’s Day Dream And Its Fulfilment that begins with:

“Child of my love, why wearest thou
That pensive look and thoughtful brow?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd ddeeaa ddccff aaggbb hhbb iijjbb ffeeaa eeccddkkfff ddaahhdd iillXm ffhhkkccbbXcchhbbmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,6,4,6,6,11,8,6,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101 11011101 110110111 11110101 10110101 11111101 10110101 11111111 110010111 010011101 010110101 101010101 110111101 111110101 011101101 110100111 010100101 100010111 010100101 1111111001 1010101011 111111101 101111001 1101011001 100101111 110111011 111010101 101110101 110010111 101111101 110111101 101010111 1111101110 1111101010 1111111001 101110101 011101101 011100111 010100101 011101111 111110111 000011111 011110100 111101111 0110101010 1101011110 001011111 0100101011 101011111 001010101 010011101 11010111 01010101 0111101 01111101 01010101 01010101 01110111 11011101 11010101 110101001 10010101 11011111 11011101 11111101 1101100111 10110101 101101111 110101101 101110101 11011101 111010101 1010110001 101100101 011101001 010010001 01111111 100110101 110100101 101110101 010101101 101100101 111111111 0010111111 010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; still, to, s, than, this, and, that, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, that, a, with, of are repeated.

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