This is an analysis of the poem To An Unborn Pauper Child that begins with:

Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently,
And though thy birth-hour beckons thee,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdd bbbbee XXbbff gghhii jjXedd bacckk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111100 111110101 1011 0101 01110111 1111110001 11010111 11011101 1101 1101 0101010101 1111110111 11010101 110100110 1111 0110 11111111 1100111111 11110111 01010111 0111 1101 111100101 11110111101 11111111 01111111 1111 1101 11111111 1111010101 11111111 010101010 1111 1111 01111111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, to are repeated.

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