This is an analysis of the poem The Stolen Child that begins with:
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXdAAAA deXeddefddfAAAA dgdgeddeddAAAA hahaieieaAAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 011001 1101010 110101 010101 1111101 1010 10101010 1011101 0010101 0010101 10111010111101 10101110 011101 1111010 110101 101010 1001110010 1011101 01111 1101010 10101010 110001 1011101 0010101 0010101 10111010111101 101001010 0010111 0101010 111101 1111001 1100011 10101 10101 011111 10011 1011101 0010101 0010101 10111010111101 0101110 0101 1111010 00110111 1010101 110001 110111 1110111 1110101 0010101 0010101 10111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 53
- 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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- summary of The Stolen Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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