This is an analysis of the poem Home, My Little Children, Hear Are Songs For You that begins with:
COME, my little children, here are songs for you;
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011111 111111111111 11101010111 1010111110001 10111010111 101110101001 11101111101 1011101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, to, mark are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mark is repeated.
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