This is an analysis of the poem The Children that begins with:
The children bring us laughter, and the children bring us tears;
They string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc bbdd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011101010111 11111101010100 110100111110101 111101000111101 01011111010101 01011001110101 10111101101101 110111000110101 01011101011111 110101010111001 10110110110111 1001001011100111 110101010011101 11010101110101 0100111010100111 01000101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bring, and, children, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, for are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Children;
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