This is an analysis of the poem In The Guiding Mode that begins with:
I have this theory about raising children.
To play with them is fine....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa Xbbc cXbdXXd bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011010 010001 1111010 0001000100100 110 01001100011 100101 010100 110110100 1101111 111111001 010011101 110010 11010111 01101101 1 010010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of In The Guiding Mode;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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