This is an analysis of the poem The First School Day that begins with:
We are saddling Don and Laddie,
Mid laughter, and fun and noise...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acXc Xdbd efgf bhah biei edad Xfgf bcgc giXi hgbg idXd
- 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: 11100111 1101111 11001010 1101011 11001010 11101101 101010010 11001001 11011011 1101101 11010010 00110101 110100110 1011110 1110111110 11010001 101001010 0101101 00101110 1111111 11011110 10110101 10111110 1011001 1110010010 11001101 11001011 0101111 110010010 0011101 11011010 101101001 101101010 00100101 111010010 0101001 001110010 01011001 001101010 1101101 11001011 101110010 110110010 11101010 11011011 100101 110100010 00101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, her, be, i, ll, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The First School Day;
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