This is an analysis of the poem Children Of Light that begins with:
Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbccXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110111 1111000101 01000101010 10100011001 1101010101 11010011101 0100110111 11010111010 1101010101 0101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Children Of Light;
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