This is an analysis of the poem Kids! that begins with:

Kids!
Hundreds of 'em for the farmer! Kids of an imported brand;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabbcXbaaaXddaXdaeeaaabXaaddafXaaXXabXXffccfgXagffXXfahhaddiid
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100010101010101 100010101010101 1 111010101110111 111000101110101 10101010 1110100 111010100010111 1 111001101011101 001110101010001 1 101010101010101 011110101010101 10101010 10111010 10101101010111 1 111000101010101 10101010001011 1 101010101011111 101110100111111 11101010 10101110 101010101010101 1 111011101110101 111011100111101 1 1101010111110111 101101011110101 10101010 10111010 10101010 11011101 1 111111101110101 001110101001110 1 001010101110101 101110101011101 10111010 11111010 111111101111101 1 10011101010101 111010101010101 1 10110101010101 111010001010101 11111010 00111110 001001100110101 1 111010101010101 101010101011101 1 100010101110101 111000101011101 11100010 11101010 101010101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2803
  • Average number of words per stanza: 514
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, from, for, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ship, we, for are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'em is repeated).

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