This is an analysis of the poem When And Why that begins with:
When I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there
is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXXXaaXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111110111110111 01010101111011101 10011111010111 1110111110111010 011111110010001 0010011110111 1111101101111 101000100101111 10010111111101 101 111110111110110 101110100101011 1010101101101111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 801
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, when, why, you, to, of are repeated.
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