This is an analysis of the poem Foreign Children that begins with:
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXC dddd eeff gghhABXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10100111 1010101 101110 11111101 1110101 1010101 1110101 11010111 1010101 1011111 1110111 11010001 11100101 1111101 1110101 11111111 10100111 1010101 101110 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; little is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word little is repeated.
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