This is an analysis of the poem Shall I See My Boy Again that begins with:

Must I die so soon? ah, far away
By blue Ohio's shore,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXbcdcbaeaXacaedcdXAbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111101 110101 01011100 1011010 01010101 010101 11010110 1111101 111011011 010101 11001111 100101 111010101 010101 00110110 1111111 11010101 111001 01110101 01001 1100110101 110101 01010101 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • 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.

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