This is an analysis of the poem The Book Of Joyous Children that begins with:

Bound and bordered in leaf-green,
Edged with trellised buds and flowers... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbaA cbdXdbcA eaXXbaeA fgfddgfA hcheechA ijikkjiA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011 101001110 1110101 11101010 11101110 00101 0010111 0101010 1110011 1010011 1011100 01001010 100101010 10101 1110101 0101010 1010111 1010101 01110110 00101010 00100111 11111 1011101 0101010 0110101 1011101 0110111 00111110 10110010 11100 01011001 0101010 1110111 1011101 1010101 10111010 10111110 00101 1110101 0101010 0010111 01010101 1010101 10111010 10101110 11101 1111101 0101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word children at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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