This is an analysis of the poem September, The First Day Of School that begins with:
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My child and I hold hands on the way to school,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcddd XecXXb feacgg X hhecXc aXgXaf cfXdbg Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 11111110101 1111110111 1101010111 1111010111 1101110101 1111011101 11010101010 11001100101 1001010100 1101110001 1101010100 1101001100 1101010101 0111110111 0101000101 11111100010 1101010101 11110100001 1 0101110101 1101011101 0101110111 1001011111 1001001101 10011000001 0101111011 1111010100 1110111101 0101111111 0101010101 1111111101 11010101011 0101010101 1101011101 1111111101 1011010100 11110100001 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, down, of, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, as are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thought is repeated).
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