The Children Look At The Parents by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Children Look At The Parents that begins with:

We being so hidden from those who
Have quietly borne and fed us,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd adXX XXXX eeeX bcfX dbXX Xf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110011 11001111 11110100 11001010 1111111 11111011 10100110 11010110 111110011 0100011 0111010 11011110 11101010 01011111 1101010 0100110 11011110 011110100 011011010 10101100 111001100 01010110 011110011 1001110 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, your are repeated.

    The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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