This is an analysis of the poem Address To My Infant Daughter, Dora On Being Reminded That She Was A Month Old That Day, September 1 that begins with:
--HAST thou then survived-
Mild Offspring of infirm humanity,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: abcdefeeaXgcXafXeXccaehaiacXhacechiXfeceaiehfaacbgiiXXcXXiXiaXfiahiihcadfgcaei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101 1110010100 1100111001 0101110111 01010001011 0101011101 1101010111 1111001101 0101010101 0100111101 1111010001 1101010100 11011101010 0100011101 11001011101 1101011110 11010101001 11011001001 11010010111 1101001101 1001010001 1011010001 1011010101 0101010101 10010010101 111111001 11010010101 1111001101 1111010101 0011111101 11110100010 1111010101 111010011 1101110001 00100010101 1001010001 1100010101 0101010101 100110001111 10101001101 1001000101 11010101110 0100110101 0101000101 1111110001 1111011101 1101011101 1101001101 1001010100 1101110101 1111111101 1111001111 0101000101 110110001 1101000111 1111011101 1001110111 1111011101 11001010011 0101010111 1001010001 110011101010 1101110100 01011100010 1101010011 1101011111 1101010101 01110111101 10010011001 0101001111 1100111101 10011110001 0011100111 1011010011 1111011101 11001010101 11010010101 11010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3367
- Average number of words per stanza: 576
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, or, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, thou are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Address To My Infant Daughter, Dora On Being Reminded That She Was A Month Old That Day, September 1;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
