This is an analysis of the poem Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies that begins with:
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bXXX acXdedfbgeaX XXcX eheg aeXccahXeaXdfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,12,4,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100101110101 01011101101 11001011111 111110101010001 11110111111110 11111000111111011 1101110100101111 111111011111 11100101001010 011110101 10111011001 101000101 11011101110111111 1110101110000111 111111010111 0101100010001 110110011111111 11001011111110 1011011 101111010111110100100 110110101110101001100 01111001100110110101 01001011010100 00110011010010111 1101011 11111111111 111010 11000101110110110 11110 1001011011010 1100101001010101010 111100 110110011 10110111111011 01110 111101111001011 10011 11011 110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to, they, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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