This is an analysis of the poem Child Margaret that begins with:

THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers.
All the numbers come...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110001011010100100110110010110 101011110100101010011 111111101010101101010101 01110111010101101100011010010 101011110110110111011 011001011111100111 110001111100101010011101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 100 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 19
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, numbers, in are repeated.

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