This is an analysis of the poem The Good Little Boy that begins with:
Once there was a boy who never
Tore his clothes, or hardly ever,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgggg gghheeiiXiiddbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 10111010 1010101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1111101 1101010 00101010 10111010 1110111 1010101 1111111 1010001 1110001 1010101 1010111 1010111 1110111 1011111 1010110 1110101 1110101 11010001 1010111 1010101 10111001 1010001 1011101 1011101 1101101 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; never, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words never, always, liked, an' are repeated.
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