This is an analysis of the poem Eight Year Old Poet that begins with:
On the platform, in Pasternak’s unerased footprints,
leaving behind your own print, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXB cdXa efeg hheX gXhc Xcbe afaX hdgX ahXh aBeB dbhe XXhB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100100011 1001111 1101001011 11110 111011100 10110111 01011001010 11010011 11011001 1011010 1111101 111101000010 010101 111111001 110101 00101001010 1111010010 1001001 00101111 011101 010011001001010 11111010 001010111 1110011111 1001010001010 11010001 101000010001 01101 01010010 100010 0010011010 11010011 1011011011 10111010 111011010 011101001 1011010001011 1001111 1101101 11110 00111111011 1001001 111101111 1111001 100111111 000111011 110111101111 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, your, children are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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