This is an analysis of the poem Romance And Reality that begins with:
A boy there was and he went to sea
With a head as full as a head could be ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddcceeXXf ggbbhh iijXbbehfekXllkkbbjjbbeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,6,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111101 0011110110 010111011 1110101101 1101011001 1011110101 110011101 100110111 001101101011 010111111 1101001110 00101001010 1101001110 11011 10010 010010101 1011011111 1101011011 010100101 1101011110 1111101100 1111111010 0011111110 1101001110 1111011010 10101011010 1101001110 10101001111 010010 10 10 110101011010 1101010010 1101010111 1111101101 1011111010 1101101010 1011011110 11010010010 1110111110110 1101011010 110101011 111100111 1011110101 1001101001 1011110110 01111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, he, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Romance And Reality;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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