This is an analysis of the poem Boy O' Dreams that begins with:
Must I leave you in the mountains,
Boy o' Dreams?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaaXbcb dAdaXef efAfacgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 111 11111010 1010011 10111010 1010101 00101110 1010001 11110010 111 11101010 1010011 10101010 1010001 10101011 0010001 11111111 111 111001111 0010111 00101110 1010101 11101010 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word only is repeated.
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