This is an analysis of the poem Child Prodigy that begins with:
If I can accept that you are 48.
Why can't you accept I was born in 1967? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX X ab X XcXdcbXXdXX X Xaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,1,11,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011111 1110111101 1111010011011 1 1101 11101001000 1 111111101100 11100010 100111 1010111010100 01 110100111010 01 111101101 1001111110101 01111011 11111 11 1101 111110 111111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Child Prodigy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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