This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Disobedient Child that begins with:
Children become, while little, our delights!
When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccXXaaddeeccccffddXgddhhggddiiXXjjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110101 1111010101 1101010010 1001011101 1101111101 1001010101 11010001010 10110100010 1101010110 1101010110 1111010001 1101110001 1101110111 1101100010 01011101010 01010100010 11110101010 11001101010 11010101110 11010110010 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 1101000101 1101111110 111011101 1101111101 0101010111 1101011111 1111110111 1101110101 1101010001 101100101 1101000110 1111001111 0111011111 1101111111 1111111101 1101110101 1101011101 1001011101 1101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1882
- Average number of words per stanza: 336
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they, they'll, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they'll is repeated.
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- summary of Upon The Disobedient Child;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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