This is an analysis of the poem The Cry Of The Children that begins with:
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaababAcad efefbbXbAgag AdacXhchigjg ikXXldlXlalaikiX jmjmcfcfaiai cncnjfjfjgig jajajojojdjX jpXpiaiaghgh adadqgqgjrkr lklkXjljcgcX liliigjXXsjs ficikkXkXncn AdacibibqpqX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,16,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101110 1010100 111011101110 1110111 0111100011 011110001 0111100011 01101100101 1011101110 1110100 111000100010 0010001 111001100010 1111101 0111110010 1010101 0110100010 011010001 0110100010 011010001 1011101110 1110111 101010100110 0110101 11101111010 1111101 10110101110 1010100 1111111010 111111101 11011101110 111010101 10111111010 1011101 1111101010100 1011101 1101101110 1110111 101011101010 1011001 11000101010 11111010011 00101111010 10111010001 011011101110 01111010101 111010111110 10111110001 11010101110 011011 00010101010 11101110 01010101110 1011101 111011101010 00100001 111000110010 11101010101 111100111010 10101110101 111011100011 1111001 111000100111 0110111 1110101110 1110111 011110110010 0110011 1110100010 11011101001 11011101110 01010111111 1111111010 1011101 1111101010 00100111 1110111010 1110110 11111101010 10110110 101001101110 1011110101 10111101010 11101011101 1110101110 101111 11110100110 10101011 101010111010 1010101 101110100110 0110101 10110101010 01101110101 101110101010 11101110111 1110101110 1011001 101011101010 1110001 11011101110 0110111 10111101010 0100101 11010111111 10100010101 111010101011 11101110101 111110101010 1010101 001010101011 1110101 11010101010 11101001 11010100010 1110101 11110101110 11110110101 111000101010 11101011101 11001111110 1111011 101010111010 1110111 1110101010 1010101 111100100010 1011011 1110101010 1111011111 111111111010 11111111111 111010101100 1110111 111000110110 1010101 1110101011 1110111 111010111010 1010101 11010111010 1101010101 11010100010 1101010101 111001110000 110101 110001011100 101101 11101111010 1110101 111101100110 0111100 11111111010 01101011011 101001101010 11100110101 1110101110 1110111 101110100010 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, young, old, and, ', very, her, our, all, us, they, without are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, and, turns, we, are are repeated.
The author used the same words do, 'for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Cry Of The Children;
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