This is an analysis of the poem To Alfred, Just Learning To Walk that begins with:
O, Alfred dear, thou wilt, I fear,
Get burned before 'tis long;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece dXfX gdgd Xhah bhih hdcd hgXg fhfh Xbib Xdid Xihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 110111 110101001 111011 11011001 111111 11011101 011110 11111101 010010 11111111 011111 11101101 110101 11111111 110101 11011111 110101 11111111 11111 11111101 1111010 11111111 1110110 11111111 111101 11011111 111101 11011101 0101110 11011110 1111010 11110101 0101010 11110101 0111010 11011101 1111010 11110101 0111010 11111111 0101011 10111011 1110111 11111111 0101010 01011101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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