This is an analysis of the poem We Were Latchkey Kids that begins with:
I can not remove those impressions made,
In my youth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbbc dXac XdXaddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101 011 1110100101 0111010010 111110111101 11111001 10111 1101010011011 11111101 101110 110010101 011011011 111101101 010111 1111100 111110011 11 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; for, i, and are repeated.
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- summary of We Were Latchkey Kids;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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