This is an analysis of the poem Child Lover that begins with:
Drunk or sober Uncle Jim
Played the boy;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca XbXbabab dXdXecec cfcfdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 101 10111011 101 1111110 101 1110011 111 1110101 101 100011010 111 11010111 101 1110011 100 1111101 111 1110111 100 1010101 101 1010101 111 1110111 001 1010111 111 1110111 101 1110110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Child Lover;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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