This is an analysis of the poem What Children Once Did that begins with:
As far as perceptions go,
One should not believe they know another, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX cXdX edXea effcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110111010 10111101 10110101011 11110101001 11101010111 111101001110 101110101010011 1101011010010 010011111101 001100011110010 01011110010101 101101011101001 001001101001 1011010100 110100100100100 10010101001 1110100100001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, and are repeated.
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- summary of What Children Once Did;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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