This is an analysis of the poem Childhood that begins with:
I
The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcdedceb X fcXghfe eccheba X hgfhibhfe hhiXgcheXbeh efjk eXebele agecXbch Xekffem Xcicfih X fggmnlhheXe eeioiXa looebnc anXecXcXccljccXi a bebc bcXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,7,7,1,9,12,4,7,8,7,7,1,11,7,7,16,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010001000100011 1110101 11010110 1101 0100101 101101 0101010 10101 11111 1 11101 01000011 1010111101011100 110101 011101101010 1101001 110101 1111 11011100 1100011 11001010 11100101 0101110 10101 1 1111 110111011110 110100 1111111 01101010 010111 1111010101111 110111 101111001100 011110 110101 110110 100110 10101011 100100101 010101110 0111101 1001011011 11101 101011001011010 001110000101 111101111001 11101111 1101101 11100010 010101 110001 00100111 1010010101 11101011000101 1101011 1010110 1110101 01111 01011110101010 1001011010 0111010 1101011101 011 10101 11101010 1011111111100 101100010110 11011 011110011010 1101010 101101001010 11101 110111001 110101110 1111011111 01111111 011101110110 111101 1 110111111111 0111 0111010101 11101011010 111111 001001001110101 101111001011 10111110100 1011100111 101101101100 10101 11111101 01011010011010 11001010 11100011 0101110 10000111111001 1111101 1101011 01111101 111011011 10100111111 11010011111 11111001 010110011 111001 1001 10010 0110110101 110111 0101010001010 00101001010 10010010100010 10101001001 1011101010 111101110100 1001101 000101 1011110 011000 0100 1 110101 110100101 111111101 11011 11110101 101101000011 10101110110 100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, i, it, and, dead, dull, street, nothing, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and, nothing, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dull is repeated).
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