This is an analysis of the poem (the) Children Of Today that begins with:
They're not here to revisit,
The gaslamp....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXABAAaa AbAcAddc EfaaEfGhhEAaFI AXABAAaEfGXEAaFI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 010 11100010 11011 1110010 010001 111101 01001 1110010 01011 11100010 101011 1110010 1111 011011 0010001 010001 111010010 1101100 011101 010001 111101111 1100010 011101 00110001101 010001 110001101 1 1010100100 010101 1110010 010 11100010 11011 1110010 010001 110111111 010001 1111011011 1100010 1110110 010001 110001101 1 1010100100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word they're at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word leadership at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of (the) Children Of Today;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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