This is an analysis of the poem Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old that begins with:

LOVING she is, and tractable, though wild;
And Innocence hath privilege in her... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadXXXaeXbXcXXXceXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010110011 1100110000 0101111101 1101010101 0100010001 11000110101 1101010101 1100010101 1111111101 1101000100 10101010001 0101010100 0101001101 0101010101 1101010101 1100011111 1001010101 001110001110 1001010100 0101010010 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 830
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.

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