This is an analysis of the poem A Child that begins with:
A child,
Curious and innocent,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX decdXXeXffX acbebX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1001100 10011010 1001001 101011 100110 100100010 10010 10101110 010010 1100111 001001 101111 10010010 1101 1101 10110110 11111 100010011 001011001 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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