This is an analysis of the poem A Poem For Children With Thoughts On Death that begins with:

O ye young and thoughtless youth,
Come seek the living God,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efgf bgbg fece hahe fifi jbjX chbh ebeb bjbj keke bbXc bfbf bibi ebebXbibi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 110101 01010101 110101 11011111 010001 11010101 100101 01010101 010011 11111111 111101 01100111 110101 11010001 110101 1010111 101101 11110101 110101 11011111 1111001 0110101 110001 1011101 0101001 0110101 110101 11110101 010101 1010011 010101 1110101 110101 11011111 110111 0010001 110101 11010001 110111 1111101 110101 1010001 1000011 1010001 0101001 1111101 11011101 11110101 011111 1111101 111101 11110101 110101 11010001 00100011 1010101 1101101 11010001 1101001 11011001 111011 11011101 1010101 11001011 1101010 11011101 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • 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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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