This is an analysis of the poem Brown And Agile Child that begins with:

Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit
And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc bbcb XXXa bXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101011101 1100111011 1111010111001 1101101010 0111010010001 0111111111 110011001010 101111011 11101101101 101101011001 1100100101 0100001010001 11011111 11110101111 10101111 10100010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, in, of are repeated.

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