This is an analysis of the poem To An Orphan Child that begins with:
A Whimsey
AH, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababcXcX dddXXdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 11111111010 011100 11011101010 110101 11010101 111100 01000111 1011 01110101110 111111 110001110010 100101 00010100 111101 11111110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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.
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- summary of To An Orphan Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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