This is an analysis of the poem Playthings that begins with:
Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning.
I smile at your play with that little bit of a...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111000110001011010 111110110100101 11100101101101010 011111111001010111010 111010010100101111 1111011110101110 01101110111111111111101110101 011011100101001010111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 697
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 86 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, i, and, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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