This is an analysis of the poem Children Of The War that begins with:
SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,
Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbbXXbXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101010 101010100100 101110101010 001111110101 101010011010 11111010001 111010101110 10111011101 111110111010 1111010010100 1010010101111 0110010110101 1110101001100 1011010110001 1011111101010 111010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 795
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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