This is an analysis of the poem Tradition, Thou Art For Suckling Children that begins with:
Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111010 1100100111 11111001 1 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 5
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
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