This is an analysis of the poem The Unseen Playmate that begins with:
When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXa ddee ffaa bbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011001101 0101111011 11011011010 01001011001 1111111111 0001011011 111000101111 11011011001 11001011101 11111001001 100111011011 01001001001 11001011001 101101001111 101111011001 11001011011 101111111011 11101111011 101011001011 101011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; children, he, that, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 't are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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