This is an analysis of the poem The Portrait Of A Child that begins with:
That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacac dbXd cece aacXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 10111111 010010101 01111101 11010101 01011101 010101 11111111 11110111 11010101 111100001 11011101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11010101 110111001 110100101 111101010 11110001 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Portrait Of A Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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