This is an analysis of the poem Children: Private Ward that begins with:
Here in this dim, dull, double-bedded room,
I play the father to a brace of boys,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccXddebbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110101 1101000101 10111100101 1011010111 1001000101 1111101101 1011110101 0101010001 1111111111 1111110101 11010100010 11010100111 10110000111 10011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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