This is an analysis of the poem To Children: For Tyrants that begins with:
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Strike not thy dog with a stick!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcca X decce X fgggg X afhhf a cccXc a idffd X gjggj X gkllX X gmnnm o goimo a gbffb X ggeeg X gkbbk X occcc X Xcmmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111001 100101 1001111 01011001 1101111 1 10101111 001111011 11011001 11010101 01011001 1 10111101 001001011 01111011 11101001 1100101 1 1100001011 11001111 101101011 01111101 001101111 1 0110101 01001001 01011101 01101110 1111001 1 11010010 10111101 01011011 001101001 10001101 1 01101011 11001101 101101101 11001001 101001101 1 1110101 11001111 001001101 101011011 11011010 1 11111011 011001101 111001101 01101101 101011101 1 101011111 01101101 110011110 1111010101 01001011 1 11101101 001011011 101101011 01111001 101001001 1 11101011 1000001111 1111001 10100111 11011101 1 1011110010 11101001 11001001 11111001 111001001 1 11011001 101001101 11001001 101011011 101001011 1 11111101 111111001 101101001 101010001 101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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