This is an analysis of the poem The Path O' Little Children that begins with:
The path o' little children is the path I want to tread,
Where green is every valley and every rose is red, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ddff aagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110100011101 110100101100101 11011101100101 11011101110101 01110101011111 11010100110011 01110101011101 11111001111101 01110101110111 11110101110101 1111011110101 1111110011111 0111010110111 11111101100101 11110101100101 1111010110101 0111010011101 1100010010101 1101110110101 1111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; where, and, every, an', us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, an' 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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