This is an analysis of the poem The Children that begins with:
You may talk of the exquisite paintings
You guard with the tenderest care ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdad acecfdfd adXdXdgd hijijkkkXhkhkggeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010 11001001 011101010 11010111 111011111 11011001 110011010 11101011 110111111 11011011 1010011110 111001001 111011110 11001111 111011110 11111101 111110110 11101001 110010010 11101011 011110110 01101011 1010011010 11111001 1011110110 11001111 1011011010 1111011001 1110110010 11101011 011110011 01001101 1110110010 01011111 0011110010 011101001 010110110 1101011001 1110011110 11001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- 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; so, of, and, had, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, my, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of The Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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