This is an analysis of the poem The Seven Year Old Poet that begins with:

And so the Mother, shutting up the duty book,
Went, proud and satisfied. She did not see the look ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghh iibbXhaaiieehh hhbbjjkkkkeel lmmeeXbhXnn oobbhoonc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,14,13,11,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101010101 111101101101 001111010101 0101001011001 1011110001001 010111010001 1100110100100 010001010100 111101101111 010110111101 011101010101 100111010001 11010011110 0101110101110 100101111111 010111101101 010111110101 010101011001 100101010101 110111010111 110001010100 111111010100 110111001111 1101110100111 0100010111010 0101010001010 100101011111 010101011101 100101011101 110111011111 11001101011 001101111101 100101111111 010101011101 010101010111 111101010011 011100010111 110101010111 101101011101 100111011101 110111111101 100111110111 110100011001 110101101101 1010010001001 11010011101 1101100111001 111111110101 01011101100110 01010110101 0100101111001 110011011100 111101110101 010111111101 11110111011 110011010111 101101010111 010111110001 010101110101 110101010101 110001011001 11011101010 10010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; in, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Seven Year Old Poet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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