This is an analysis of the poem No Boy Knows that begins with:
There are many things that boys may know--
Why this and that are thus and so,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdD bbeebbdD ffeeggdD XXeehhXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111011111 10111111 110100111 01110100 11111001 11101111 11101111 111111101 11101111 111011111 11101101101 100101101 111100101 100101101 110110111 111111101 011110111 0100110111 111100101 011111111 1111100101 1011110101 0011110111 111111101 11110110110 0010110101 0010100101 110101101 00100110111 110100101 011110101 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, when, they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of No Boy Knows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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