This is an analysis of the poem Today, In Class, that begins with:
Today, in class,
I read aloud to forty little boys ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbbbbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1101010101 0100110101 1011 10110101101 0101010011 1101 0011010101 1001010101 1101 0101010001 0101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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