This is an analysis of the poem Among School Children that begins with:
I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababccdXdeXeff XghghghiiidididXXjijijikkbbXbXbii XbbbbbbXbXhfhfXfll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,33,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111100 0111001101 0101010101 0101011100 0111010101 0011010101 0101010101 0101110101 110010101 01010100111 100110110001 1111010100 1101111101 0001010100 1101010100 0001110011 1 1100110111 1101111101 1100111111 1101000111 10010010100 1111001111 1101110101 1101110101 0011010001 0100010100 1001110101 1101011101 111100101 1101010101 1001111111 100100010110 11010010101 1001010101 1111110001 1101010101 1101011111 0101110101 01010101001 10010000101 1011010111 0101010101 1001010101 0101000101 11010101000 1001010111 1011110101 1101110101 1 1111010100 1101011111 1100010100 1101010101 1111111100 11010010101 11110010100 1111001101 1 1101001101 0100110101 1101100101 1111010111 1111110100 1101010101 110101011001 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 870
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, in, and, nor are repeated.
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- summary of Among School Children;
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