This is an analysis of the poem The Little Serving-Boy that begins with:

Thou, mounted on thy gallant steed,
A mighty man dost ride,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBa bbXb Xcdc debe abcb XaBa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 010111 11110101 110111 11011101 110101 11010101 010011 11110100 101101 11110101 1100101 11111111 010111 11111101 110101 11011001 111111 11101101 111101 11110111 1011111 11110101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; thy, me, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Little Serving-Boy;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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