This is an analysis of the poem Childhood Paradise that begins with:

Birth and Baptism
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdeXfbbgXhijccklXgmneekiejcjgemgmmggmfjmddoejckjjiegiGmXXgpbimNfXNXGccBgmcmqmcjdXqiBrimaEbldrnfbmEdkXikXXmXribibceimfbmgmlfmfmc rmcloXgmbclidXrmmboXocmgocgokmrlXXjncmXcdm Xmm mbMlhjlbhbardkrXrXrXrXrXrXBeFLfdjmomibircijjbXrscommmXXbjbMlgrl qo bjXXrXr
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 131,42,3,63,2,49,2,2,11,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 1 110 1 01 110010 100 10100 011 0 01010 100 10110 001001101010 10 10100010110 11 1 10100010100101 10 01100 10110 011011101101101 0101 10010101 1100 111111 010101011111 10110 11 1100111110001 11 11000100 11 10 0100100 010 0111101010 100 010 100110001010 0101 10100100 01100010000100 10 101010 1001 1101101 0101 00101010001 1 10 10110 10 1010100 10 010101101 0100 11110 110001011000 10000 101010010001010 11101 10001 010110001 01001 10 11011 11 10 101010010101010 0100 1 100 01110 1000110010 1000110 1 110011 11 100011 11 101100 10 101001010010 101 1001 01110 00 11010 110 1101101001 0101 0110 1001101010 10011110 10011010001010100 10101 1001 1 1110 0101 10110 1 10 1011010 1 110 1 1110 1111 0 11 10101001010001010010 100010100100 10 001 01 100100 1 100110111001 10100 1 1011011100 1 1000101100010010 1 0101011010 1 01 1 0 0 110 100010010 1 10 100 1011 01 11 1110100110 1 010 001 00 110110 101010 100 1 10 1 10101 0001 0110110010 1 1 110010 0 01001 110010 10 011000100 1010 11010 11 1010101111101100001 1 10011110100 1010 01010100101010 101 10 110 1 111111011 1 110100010 101 01010 1100 11001011 10 0 10 110011011101001 011 00 10110 1100111011 0 10010010 0 1010010100 0 10010010 0 10010010100 0 10010010 0 1010010100 010 1 011011100111101 10010 111 010010 10101010101 1 1101 111110101 1 1111 1 10 1111 00101 01110 1 11111 11111011100010 0 10101 1 1110101010 10101 1 11100101 100 10000 100101 1 0010 101 010 100 1010 01010 1 010101 1110 1 11000 10101101010010 0 10010010 0 1010010100 0 10010010 0 10010010100 0 10010010 0 1010010100 010 1 011011100111101 10010 111 10 10110 01010 01 111001010111110 11 0 101 001100 101010101 0 101010 00 01 11 100100100101 1 11 1100110101011 1011010101 1 001 010101 010100101 1 000100 0 110 10010011 100 1001000 1000 0 1110100 10 110101011 100 0101000101100010 100 10010000 001 10 10 1 1011010 0 01 001001010 1 1110 1 1011010 11 0 10 10010 10 101100 0 10010010 0 1010010100 0 10010010 0 10010010100 0 10010010 0 1010010100 010 1 011011100111101 10010 111 11001 1 1 1110001 101 111011 110101 101011010 0001 10 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 350
  • Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 3
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; always, all, by, under, in, opposition, to, i, and, through, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words most, hours, old are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hours, and are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hours connects the lines.

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  • summary of Childhood Paradise;
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