This is an analysis of the poem Among Children that begins with:
I walk among the rows of bowed heads--
the children are sleeping through fourth grade...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabadacbedfacXbeXaXgaafhebciaaeejeajgcfih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101011 010110111 11001011001 01010100101 101101011 11101101010 1101001110 1101110011 10100110111 00100010111 010111110 111111110 11101001111 0110101110 0010101010 1101010100101 0010010110 01010101 0011110111 00100101111 1111111010 1001010111 1101010001 001101011010 01101100011 01001110100 101111001 1101111011 00110010111 1011101011 100111110 011110011 1001100111 100101111 101110111 111111101011 110111001 0110101011 0100011001 01110011101 0100010111 0010011100 111001110 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1820
- Average number of words per stanza: 346
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; their, and, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).
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