This is an analysis of the poem Introduction: More Beasts For Worse Children that begins with:

The parents of the learned child
(His father and his mother) ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccabdedefgfgcecehXhXieiXiXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100011 0101010 01000101 01111101 110100111 11001110 11010110 100111 10010100 1100001 11111111 111111 01010101 010101 11010011 011001 010100100 010101 01110101 010001 11010001 110100 11011101 011101 11010100 1001010 11110101 011101 11110111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 908
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

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  • summary of Introduction: More Beasts For Worse Children;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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