To My Children by Sarojini Naidu: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To My Children that begins with:

Jaya Surya
GOLDEN sun of victory, born ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbaacd X eeffffcd X gghhiicd XXhhaahhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010 10101001 0111001 0110101 1110101 10011010 01110110 10100110 1011100 100 1010111 1010011 10101011 10111111 10101011 10110011 1010110 1001100 1000 1010101 0110101 1010101 0011101 1100101 1010101 1010110 1011100 1000 1010001 1000101 01100101 1110111 1010101 0110101 1010110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, sun, lord are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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