This is an analysis of the poem Bored that begins with:
All those times I was bored
out of my mind. Holding the log...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcacadXefbeXfgcbdcbbbffcadgXXbfhhXaXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10111001 111010 0111101 100011110 100011111 0100111111 1011001 00111101 11110111 111100 1010100110 101111101 01010001100 01001001 100101010100 1101001011 01101011010 10101001 01111001 1101010010 110110100 0110 0101010001 0100110111 100011110110 10010110110 1111111 10101000110110 011110100110 1011110110 11111 1110101 011010 1011011 10010000111 10111001 111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1403
- Average number of words per stanza: 258
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sat, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, now are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase looking connects the lines.
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- summary of Bored;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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