This is an analysis of the poem The 'Weird' Child that begins with:
I was the 'weird' child.
You know......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcbdeeabXfa eaa bdgbXaabbh XXbba Acdc ieXbXc igf hi X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,3,10,5,4,6,3,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11 0111 01011010100 01101111 111011 0101101101 111010011101 1010 101011 1111 11011 00111101 11110110101 101001 111 001101 0111101 01010101010110 1110100 101 1100101 11110 011101100110010 1101001 11101001010 110111101 001 10 11100 010111101 11011 1011001111 101111000 11101 111101101 101 111011111 01010 11011 11111 11101110110 11011111110 100101 111 1110 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, it, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of The 'Weird' Child;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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