This is an analysis of the poem The Summer Children that begins with:
I like 'em, in the winter when their cheeks are slightly pale,
I like 'em in the spring time when the March winds blow a gale;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101111101 110000111011101 111011101110011 11110101010101 111110101110111 111011011010111 111010101110101 101110101111101 110101011101001 111011101010111 1010011101011101 01010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; i, 'em, when, and, they're are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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