This is an analysis of the poem Manners that begins with:
For a Child of 1918
My grandfather said to me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcX bbXb dXeX Xded Xeee cdcX acac Xebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1110101 11110101 110010011 10101110 1101011 11101101 1011010110 111011111 111010111 001111010 1001010101 1011111100 11101110 1101101 101001111110 1111101 1110101101 01101101 111010110 1011011101 1011111110 1011100 1111010 011111110 1100111 01101010 111010101 1101010110 11101001 11101110 1111111 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, day, he are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Manners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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