This is an analysis of the poem We Are Seven that begins with:
--------A Simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dada eaea aXaf XfdF fXfX dFdX fffX aXaX Xaea gcgc XeXe hfhf afaf iaiX fXfX aXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101 110101 110101001 110101 11010101 1110111 011101001 110101 11010111 111101 01011101 010111 100110101 1101110 10101001011 1100111 1011111110 11010011 11011111 111101 100100111 1101110 10011101 11001100 101111111 111101 111101111 1110110 10010101 10011111 10100111 0101110 101011101 111101 01100111 11110100 1011111010 010101 1011101101 111111 101011101 110111 11010111 110100 101010111 100111 11110100 111101 11111101 011101 11010001 111101 100011111 110111 01010111 110111 101011101 111111 11011101 11110100 1010111011 101110100 11010101 101011100 101111111 11010100 11010111 01011100 111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, my, there, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, how, and, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word seven at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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