This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Child Went Forth that begins with:
THERE was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd eeefgeefehb cXfieefijdejh kbbXb jlahXfhfjkmkdXfdfdlicgjXXaiXema
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,13,5,31,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111001 101101101110101 111001101101101010 01111001101000 01011011001 11111110101111 1010100101 10111101111010 111011 10101001111010001 1 101010011100001110 10010010 101010110111011 01 0110111110110 11 10111100110110 01010010 1010110010101100 1110101001101 101101001001100 101111010 1011011101001 1010111101001 1010111110111011 1 1101001011001011 0110 1111011111011001 1101 11011001111 1111001001101101 0101110010010101010 0100111011101010 101010111111 010110101011001 01011101100101 0100100010010001000 101101 01010101000101010 1010101101 010111010110100 1011 10110110110011011 1110101001011110 111111 010110100101100 10 10010101010011010 10 01010101001111010 01 11100110110111100 1111101 0101110010101010 11110 01001001110110 0100101011001101 1010101010100011000 0010101011010011 111 10110111111001111 11011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, object, day, or, and, that, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, they, whether are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of There Was A Child Went Forth;
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