This is an analysis of the poem Care-Free Youth that begins with:

The skies are blue and the sun is out
and the grass is green and soft ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabacdedbfgf gcacaeaeXbeb heieebXbageg cbhbhijijfef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 011110101 1010111 1011100101 1010101 1011110111 1011101 010000111 1011111 1010101011 1100101 01011111 0011101 1101100101 1010101 0011100111 1010101 1011110101 1010101 110110101 1100111 11011001110 1100000 010100101 10100101 111110111 0011101 1010110101 1100101 11011101 010101 1110111101 1111111 110010111 1100101 1011100111 1100101 1010111101 1011101 10100100101 1011101 011110101 1110101 0110100101 1101101 110010101 10101101 1100100111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 462
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, his, of, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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