This is an analysis of the poem Good And Bad Children that begins with:
Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX dddd bbbb dXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 11111010 01111110 11101010 11101110 11001010 10111100 10011010 10111010 10101010 11101010 10101110 100110010 10111010 11101110 101010010 10101010 11111110 10111010 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, and, happy, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, happy are repeated.
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