This is an analysis of the poem Just To Show The Kids Today What Innocence Is that begins with:
Remember those lollipops we liked alot and licked.
I remember licking every bit and saving the sticks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB BB CA CDeCD AB BB CA CDeCD A CD A CDXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,5,2,2,2,5,1,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101110111 101010100111001 0101010011110 1011101011011 1101010111010 0100101110 1111110010110 101010111000 1 1111110010110 101010111000 0101101110111 101010100111001 0101010011110 1011101011011 1101010111010 0100101110 1111110010110 101010111000 1 1111110010110 101010111000 101010001011100 1111110010110 101010111000 101010001011100 1111110010110 101010111000 10101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; remember, innocence, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word just is repeated.
The author used the same word remember at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Just To Show The Kids Today What Innocence Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of With Influence That Lacked Integrity
- Analysis of We Were Latchkey Kids
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