This is an analysis of the poem A Counting-Out Song that begins with:
What is the song the children sing,
When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcXDXXDX eeffgghhDXXDX ccffhhiiDXXDX hhjjffkkDXXDX jjjXccllDXXdX mmffbbXXdXXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 111111001 1011110111 1010101111 10100111 101011001 1011101101 0010011110100 10100111 10010101 1110111 1111 101100 11111 0011100101 101001101001 110100101 11100100111 01001001001 101111111 1110101111 10100111 100101010 10110101 1111 101100 11010101 10101111 1100100101 011100101 10100101 111011001 1011111101 11100100 10010111 10111010 10110101 1111 101100 10101111 110100101 11101111 111100101 011101111 11111111 0010100101 001001111011 10100111 10010111 010010101 1111 101100 110110111 011100101 110110111 010110100 11110111 011111101 11001001101 0100100101 10010111 10010101 10111110 101111 101100 1001011001 10101001001 1101011001 0101001011 110110101 010110111 1100110101 1011111110 1110111 101101110 10110101 100111101 101111 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, it, or, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of A Counting-Out Song;
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