This is an analysis of the poem Today I Know 'Them' And 'They' that begins with:
As a child I believed I had an understanding,
As to who 'them' and 'they' were....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa babaXbXXca Xcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011111010 1011110 01011100 1101000101001 11110111 0101010100 1111100111010 0111111110001 110101111110 100101100110111 0100010001110111 10111111 10101110 101100110111 1 1101 11111 10111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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