This is an analysis of the poem Afterschool Games that begins with:
Have my childish naughty deeds,
Left me to be considered foolish......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbde XeeaXaf acdfaXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 110001010 11010 10010010100 11011110 110011 1110100010 11111 110111 1 101111 001111 0101010100 11111001 11111001000 00100 101001001001 11 1000100101 1011111111010 11001001 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; have is repeated.
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