This is an analysis of the poem Your Children that begins with:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcXcaXXXXbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 11011100110101 11111101 111101101101 1110111111 111111 1111101111 11110010011 111010110011 111001011101011 1111101100101 11010111011010111 010101010100100 1111001101011111 11100010101100 11011101011 111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 882
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, they, not, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, thoughts are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Your Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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