This is an analysis of the poem Advice To Little Children that begins with:
Bless those little children
That love to go to school;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abab cdcd c Abcb ebXX afaf c cege XXdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 110101 10010 1010101 101110 111111 1101010 111111 10 111010 110101 111010 110101 111111 10101 00100111 100101 111010 010011 1111110 11011 10 111011 010011 010110 110101 1110010 001101 1111011 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
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- summary of Advice To Little Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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