This is an analysis of the poem Children that begins with:
Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbb caca adXd efef ghch adgd AfXf XeceXchch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 1111111 10101011 110101 11001010 110101 1111010 1010101 0111011011 0110101 101001010 1011001 11101001 0010011 111010011 110101 10110010 011111 11111010 1010001 1001110 100101 001011010 1100101 1011110 110011 101101110 0110101 11111100 1010011 10101010 1010011 111011010 1100111 1111010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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