This is an analysis of the poem The Boy on the Moor that begins with:
How dreadful it is to go over the moor
When it is teeming with will o' the wisps...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbbcbAd cdXbbeda fgbbaedb dhgbhXXg XXbXahdX eXieaXefXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000011001 1001000101 11110110 110110110 01011011001 100101011 11000011001 101111001 0111011001 11101010 10010011001 11010010 01011000 110110010 1101101101 10111001 0010111 01110010 01111001 10101011 1101011001 100010010 101001010010 100101001 101011111 1010010011 101010110 0101001 1011011 1001000010 100101001 1101010 0101001001 101001001 110011011 1111101 011110101 001010111 0100111001 1010001111 1000010110 1110011 0110110 0111010 101111001 110101011 100101010 11001101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; onwards is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, onwards are repeated.
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- summary of The Boy on the Moor;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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