This is an analysis of the poem A Little Girl Lost that begins with:

Children of the future age,
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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddd eeddd ffeee ddggg ddhhh hheeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000101 1000101 1100101 1111101 00101 10101 11101 00101 100010101 10101 10101 10101 10101 1101010001 10101 10111 10001 10111 101010101 100101 10101 10101 110101 1010101001 00101 10101 10101 10101 101010101 10111 01101 101001 10101 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

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