This is an analysis of the poem The Return Of The Children that begins with:
Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races--
Holding hands forlornly the Children wandered beneath the Dome,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cXcX dbdX eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011010110101110 101100010100101 100101001011010010 101101100110101111100 100100111010010010 101011110010110010011 101101001110111110 101101001011011010 1001111111110011111 1111101011101011111 11100101101010011 1111001001001111011110 1101010110100101 1010011110101011 10100110011111001 101111001001011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 79 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, thou, to are repeated.
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