This is an analysis of the poem The Boy And The Snake that begins with:
Henry was every morning fed
With a full mess of milk and bread.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaaabbffgghhbbeeeeddaaaaXXccaaeXaaffXXffXfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100101 00110111 11010101 11010101 11010101 01110111 01010111 1010101 10010101 01110101 01011101 011101001 10010111 11000111 01011101 110010101 10111101 10111111 01011111 11010110 101111010 110011110 10110111 11010101 1110101 01111001 01011101 11110101 1110101 11110101 11011101 01111101 01111101 01010001 0110101 100110001 11111111 1110101 11110111 1011101 11010101 10011111 11000101 111111110 01100101 1110101 11010101 01110101 10011101 11111101 010101101 11010101 1110111 11110111 01010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1946
- Average number of words per stanza: 379
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; his, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Boy And The Snake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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