This is an analysis of the poem Children Selecting Books In A Library that begins with:
With beasts and gods, above, the wall is bright.
The child's head, bent to the book-colored shelves,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcacddXbeadXaaeabbbbfcdbbbXaXbdaXaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 0111001101 01110011100 10011100101 0111100101 1001010101 11000101110 100111010011 1101101 0101 10101010101 11010001010 1111111111 11110100110 011110010100 1110111101 0111110111 11110011101 1101010101 1111010111110 111111000010 0101010111 011101110111 0111011111 1111110111 01100011101 00101110110101 110101010111 110111111101 001100111 0011001000111 11001010111010 100000110000111 10111101010101 0111110111 111100110101 11011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1752
- Average number of words per stanza: 313
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, their, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, of are repeated.
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