This is an analysis of the poem The Children that begins with:
The children are all crying in their pens
and the surf carries their cries away....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacXdeFfaFdFXXXagaeaccX daechdagiddhacibXabca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110011 101101101 111111111 11110101 01100111 0110111 10 1101 1110111 101011 1101 1110111 1010010010 1110111 101011001 111 1111 010110011 1101100 1111010 1001010000 100111011 11101 11100101 1011 10 11111000101 001001 001100100 0100010 01110 001 11110 010101 101110 0011100110 11100001011 011101 111010 1100111 111011101 11111010 11010101010 110101 0010100 011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, their, there, in, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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