This is an analysis of the poem A Child's Hair that begins with:
A letter from abroad. I tear
Its sheathing open, unaware... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab cccdcd eeefef ggghgh Xffgfg ecXiXeegeg jjjhjh kkkXki lllele cccece cccfcf gggigi aaagagXeeeiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000111 01010101 11010111 1101 10010101 1001 01010111 11101111 111100101 01001 01010001 01001 10110101 11110101 01010101 1111 001111001 1101 110111010 110101010 110101010 1001 110101010 1101 11010101 01011101 11010101 1111 11000111 0101 11011101 1 1 11 1 1 101100111 1111 11010101 1101 110110001 10111101 11110100 1011 11111111 1101 11110111 10010111 11011101 11100 110100101 1101 11010101 100111101 11001100 0111 01010111 1101 11010101 10110101 01011101 1101 010010101 1011 11111111 110011001 11010101 0111 11001111 1001 10111111 11110101 0100100111 1111 01010101 0101 11111101 01010101 10110101 1101 10110111 1111 11011101 01110101 11010011 1101 110100101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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