This is an analysis of the poem Those Kids Are Mine that begins with:
Pick any hour you choose to believe,
I am fast asleep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbbcd AE XXfgfbchc AEidbhgffiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011001 11101 0101000 11001010 01111010100 10010101010 010101101 1101011001 110001001110 1101110 001011100 110111 1 110101010011 1101011 00110100 110011101111 001110101010 1101011001 110001001110 101010110 1 111011 10011101111 0010100111 0111 0101111001 1111111110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word pick at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Those Kids Are Mine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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