This is an analysis of the poem Against Writing About Children that begins with:

When I think of the many people
who privately despise children,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc cdc XXX XeX bec fgd egaXdaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010 11000110 11100101 1001111 010001000110 001111011 0100001000 100101111 1001001 0111101011 1000011 010101 11110110 10110101 11101 0100100110 011101011 100010111 000101010010 10101011 100010101 111010 10101010100 011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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