This is an analysis of the poem The Child's Funeral that begins with:
Fair is thy site, Sorrento, green thy shore,
Black crags behind thee pierce the clear blue skies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXac dede fdfd bgbg hehe ijij gXgX ebeb adad ffffXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011100111 1101110111 01110010101 1111010111 010010111010 1001010101 110010110001 1101011101 110101001001 1011110111 10001011101 11010101001 1001000101 11010010011 10110010101 0101010111 1101110101 1101110111 11110001001 11010110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101011110 0101010101 01010100101 0101110101 1101010001 1111010101 0111010111 01001010111 1101010101 11010001100 1101110101 1001010101 11001100111 1101011111 11010010101 1011111111 0101010101 0101010101 0101011111 101101101011 0101011111 0101110101 1111011101 0011010111 1101011111 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Child's Funeral;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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