This is an analysis of the poem The Children that begins with:
These were our children who died for our lands: they were dear in our sight.
We have only the memory left of their hometreasured sayings and... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacXddX ddeeXb fccf ccggcXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011111101011 111001001011000010110 010111010111010010 10010011101101011 111011010 10100010010010100 1101110110111111 0110100111110111 110011011111100 11101011100011 11011111010101001 101111010111110 010010011010010 101100101100110 11011111111010 111100111100110 01001101011010 1011011011011010 100100111100110 111110010110110 0010011011010010 10110100110101010 001011101100100110 00100011100011010 01001010111100 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- 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; our, us, to, by, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of The Children;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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