This is an analysis of the poem We Teach Them Young that begins with:
We teach them young,
What to dislike....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXb AcXXdE fggcdE AgXcX XecfX dAcebXdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1001 1 010100100 01000010 1101 1011101 010101 1010101 1 100 110 001010101 0011110 00101001 1 100 1101 010010 110011000 1111011101 110010011001 11010010111 11110100100111 111 0101001011001 110001111 1 101 0010001001 11110101010 1 1 101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word this at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of We Teach Them Young;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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