This is an analysis of the poem Warning To Children that begins with:

Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXbeFghiceXcXbeFgXgeeiXXafgcadbfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101 00101010 10001010 1010111 11110110 10101010 11101010 1010101 11100101 10111010 1100101 00100110 1010011 1010101 10111011 0010101 10101110 11101110 1010111 11100101 10111010 1010101 11101010 10111010 1010001 1010101 10101110 11101110 1010111 11100101 00111010 1010101 10111101 00101010 10001010 1010111 11111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; enclosing, enclosed, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.

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  • summary of Warning To Children;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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