This is an analysis of the poem School that begins with:
What's the use of books and schooling,
Sum and slate and such like fooling?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc aadd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 11111110 1011101 10101001 00101110 00111010 0011101 11101011 10101010 10111110 1111111 10100111 10101010 10111010 101001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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- summary of School;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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