This is an analysis of the poem To A Child Of Fancy that begins with:
MY little dove, my little lamb,
In whom again a child I am ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd ddaa eeaa ffgg bbXc ffgg hhii jjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01010111 11001111 010000111 11010101 100101001 11110110 01010101 100100101 11010101 10001101 11010001 111111011 01001101 11011101 11110011 01010001 01111111 10110101 11000111 100101001 010111101 01110100 10010111 101111011 00110101 01111101 11110101 11110101 11110101 10111111 110100100 100011111 11110101 11110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, what, of are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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