This is an analysis of the poem The Important Thing that begins with:
He was playing in the garden when we called him in for tea,
But he didn't seem to hear us, so I went out there to see...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabX aXccdX aaeecc aXbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101111011 111010111111101 101011101111111 111010101110101 111011111010101 101110101110101 11010101111101 111010111011101 111111101110101 111011110111111 111001101010110 111010010011101 11100101110101 111010101010101 101011110011101 111010101010101 1110111011100001 011000100011101 111000100010011 111010101111101 111011100111101 111011101010111 111010101011101 101111100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, ', i, him, his, of, we, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is 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 Important Thing;
- central theme;
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