This is an analysis of the poem The Little People that begins with:
WHO are these strange small folk,
These that come to our homes as kings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacb deedeX fbgfXb ghegeh XXiXiX bchbhcXfcgfgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11101111 101111 1011011 100101 1100011 111111 10101010 100111 1001101 100101 1111100 101111 101001010 101111 1001011 111110 110111 101101 10100111 1001001 1101111 101101 1100101 101111 11111110 111101 1101010 1111011 1100100 1011001 11101001 100111 1011011 100111 1100100 110101 00100101 110111 1011111 100101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Little People;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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