This is an analysis of the poem The Children Of The Poor that begins with:
1
People who have no children can be hard:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaXbbaccXbdd X caaXcaacbebecc X fXgffggfhihigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1011110101 0101011100 11100101011 1010010101 11110101100 11010101101 0101011001 0111100101 11010011101 0101010001 101110000 1101010111 1101110100 010000100001 1 1111110111 1101010001 1111010101 1101110010 1111110111 1011110101 0101010101 11110100011 1101010101 1111101101 1100011101 1111100101 0101110111 0111010101 1 1111110101 11011101000 100010100010 11110100101 01101011001 1001110101 01010101001 1101011101 0101001101 1110110101 0111011101 0111110001 1101110101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; makes, who, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, if are repeated.
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