This is an analysis of the poem That Boy that begins with:
Is the house turned topsy-turvy?
Does it ring from street to roof?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabcB XdXdabcB XdXdebcb cfefabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111010 1010101 00101010 1011110 11100010 1101101 11111010 1111111 11111010 1111101 11111110 11100101 11101010 1011001 11111010 1111111 11111010 0010101 101011100 1010001 11101010 1010101 10001110 1011111 11101010 1011101 111010010 1110001 11101010 0010011 11101010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word boy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of That Boy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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