This is an analysis of the poem Youth In The Skies that begins with:
These who were children yesterday
Now move in lovely flight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcb bdXd ecXc AcceXccbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 01011111 010111 01010101 110111 01011101 011101 11110001 110101 11010101 110101 110010111 110101 11110101 010111 11010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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