This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Children that begins with:
Take heed of this small child of earth;
He is great; he hath in him God most high. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXf gege eheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001101 1011101111 10011101 11010011 01110101 11111001 010011001 10010011 11110111 01110101 01110101 110110101 011111010 11011100 111100010 110101101 11111101 10011111 11110101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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