This is an analysis of the poem For Your Boy And Mine that begins with:
Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,
But that our children after us shall know life at its best;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddddcc eeffgg hhiidd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111011111 11110101111101 11110101010111 01011101011101 11011101110111 11110101111101 11111011111 11110101110101 11010110101101 10110111101101 01110101110101 10010101110101 01100111110111 11010111010101 11010101110101 10110111110111 11111101010101 11110111011111 11111011111 01011101111111 11011101010101 11110111010101 10111111111111 111111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, days, and, them, we, for, we'd, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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