This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To The Children that begins with:

IN the early summer morning
I stand and watch them come,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedafgfaXabefgfahihbajaklcldfmjhdiddhahdhXhgefegfmjgeaehkak
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 111101 0100011 1101111 0101010 110101 10010001 111101 1101010 1011001 0111010 10101 1101010 010101 0101010 10101 010101 0011111 10101010 110101 11111010 111111 11011111 110111 1111011 101111 1001010 100101 1001010 100111 1110110 100111 11011010 101110 110011011 1101100 101111 010111 1011010 100101 1111010 1010101 1101010 110111 1111010 11101001 11111111 111111 11110010 010111 11010101 111101 1111010 1110110 110011011 1101100 1110010 111011 111010010 111101 1111011 111111 1111010 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1850
  • Average number of words per stanza: 338
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, in, i, to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my, and, when are repeated.

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