This is an analysis of the poem The Orphans' New Year's Gift that begins with:
The room is full of shadow; you can hear, indistinctly, the sad soft whispering of two children.
Their foreheads lean forward, still heavy with...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdeXdXfeghXefhXeXaXccihhdeXeeabXbdjkXcjcjgeXkfXbdheigdecgeddiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101111110000111000110 1111101100101011110 110110110110101 111100100110011011 001011001001010 110111001 1 1010100101010101101111011 10011010011101101010110100 10101001000100101011 11010101111111101101 1010101010111011101010 100011110101101010 011110111010110101111010 0101111011010100110110 101101011001001100 1010001101101010010 0101010101010100101001100 010111010110111010 111110111100101011011 101011111110101101011110 1 1111011101100110001101 11100101111010111001001 0101101001011111011011 1011001010010001010011110 1101001011110 10111001111 0111111111100110010 110110011110100101011100 10100101111010111001011 11010111011110110 10111001011011101110 111010011110011011101 1 11100111110101101111 11000110101001110111111110 10101000111110010100 1111001001110011 11101011111111 111000101001001010111101 0010001110111100111010 11011011011011010101001 111101101101111111010 110010111111100110 10101110001111 11011011011 1 1010111010111010 11110011111110110110 1101110011010010001011 1111101010011010101011 11101110010101110110 111110011000100111111 100101101100101110101 0101010000111010111010 1110110001001010101011 0111100001011001010110 0011101111101110101101 10111110110011111010 110101010100111 11110100100110101 1101101010011001111 100010011110111101 01101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5276
- Average number of words per stanza: 916
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 80 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, its, and, little, you, with, no, key, there, their, they, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, here are repeated.
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