This is an analysis of the poem Child Development that begins with:
As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs
and sauntered off the beaches into forests...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde fXcdaXXeX bbXbeb XaabfXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111 110010100010 10110100111 11010111110 10010110 1001011011010 0010111100 1110011101 0101001011 1101101101 1010 101010110101 001110101110 0101110001001 1111101101 1101000100010 1110111111 101011001010 1001011010 0101010110011 0011110010 1111010101 101011110 11101101 1011100101001 10010010 1110111010 11110100 11101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of Child Development;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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