This is an analysis of the poem Those Of Childish Minds that begins with:
Those of childish minds,
I had to sever and leave behind....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXXcdbdabXXXdBAXXdeeXabca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 110101101 111011101 110101010 10001 0101011 0100101110 11110100 1100101010101 10101010 1010010011111010 1010101101 10100 0100101101 110101101 10101 110101000 10110111100 11110 11011 00110111 101010 1110111 11001111 111101011 11101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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 Those Of Childish Minds;
- 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 Investing Our Hearts
- Analysis of Sentiments
- Analysis of Just As Perceptions Have No Clarity
