This is an analysis of the poem Childless that begins with:
If certain folks that I know well
Should come to me their woes to tell...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcccc eeffccggeecX hhddggcceedX hhiicchhiibbXeebbddffiiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11011101 110100110 111101110 11110111 11011101 01010100 11110101 01110101 11111110 11010101 11111111 11110111 11011101 11011101 11010101 11110001 110111001 11010101 11010111 10010111 1000110011 01010101 11110101 10110101 11110111 101010001 11111001 11010011 11110001 11010111 11010101 11001011 01011101 01010111 11111000 11110011 11010101 11111110 11010101 11010111 11000101 01011101 01110101 11111111 01010101 11010101 11110011 11010111 11011111 111101001 01010101 11100101 11010101 10011111 11111111 11001101 11111101 11011101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; their, and, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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