This is an analysis of the poem Kisses that begins with:
Little child, when twilight shadows
Close the western gates of gold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdc Xababcec bdedbcec fgXgfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 1010101 11101010 1000111 10111110 10100101 10101111 0010101 10101011 1111111 111001010 1110101 11101110 1010101 10101110 0010101 10111010 1110101 111010010 1110101 11101100 1000101 10101110 0010101 10101010 0110111 1011011010 1010111 11101010 1110111 10101010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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- summary of Kisses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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