This is an analysis of the poem Children's Playground In The City that begins with:
THIS is a place where men laid their dead,
Each with his life-tale of good or ill; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaab Xcdceedc fbfbccfb cgcghhcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 000111111 100110011 110101111 110010101 10101111 1011011101 0011110111 010101111 1101011100 0111001001 01101001110 111100111 110110101 0100101001 01011011010 10100111111 1111101101 111101101 1111101101 0110101101 10110100111 1100101011 1101110111 1010101011 0111010001001 10110101101 1111101001 0111001011 111101101 1111010111 1111111111 00111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, her, let, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, let, and are repeated.
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