This is an analysis of the poem The Four Children that begins with:
A Ballad of Good Intentions
Four children played by an old oak tree,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXbbccaXddXXXacX ccaX bbeeccaaffggccbb ggaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,4,16,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000010 110111111 11111101 110010101 101111001 111110101 110110101 11010101 101011001 111111101 001010101 1111101010 0111101010 11111101 110110101 111100111 1110111101 100110011 111110101 111111111 1111111010 011110111 011110110 110100101 1111100111 110100101 111011111 110110101 1110100111 111111101 111100101 011111111 1110100101 111111111 111100111 110010111 110110111 0011110101 001111001 111110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, his, till are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Four Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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