This is an analysis of the poem The Children Of The Foam that begins with:

OUT forever and forever,
Where our tresses glint and shiver...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbaAbDd ccXeebccbDd aadccdc cdDd aaecXecceDD aXdbbdffddd ggbhhbXcbDDXcchcchaAhDD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,7,4,11,11,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 11101110 1010111 11001010 10101010 1010101 11111010 10111010 0110001 1111101 1110001 00101010 10101010 10100111 10101110 101010010 10101001 10101110 11111010 1110001 1111101 1110001 11101110 10101110 1010111 11111010 11111010 1010101 10111010 11111010 1010011 1111101 1010001 11111010 00111110 1111101 11111110 11101100 1010111 11111010 11101010 1011100 1010101 1110001 10101010 01101100 1111111 10101111 10101011 1011101 10101110 10110010 0111111 0011111 0010001 10111110 101010011 00111011 10101110 00101010 0010101 10100100 11111010 1110101 1010101 1110001 10101110 10101110 1010101 10101010 11111010 1111101 10101010 10111010 1010101 1111101 1110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, you, then, from, under are repeated.

    The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home, there are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word foam at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Children Of The Foam;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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