This is an analysis of the poem The Kid that begins with:
Now, this ain't a loocid story, but it 'as a 'igh-class moral.
I can mop up all the praises hurled at me by them it soots.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe fgfg chch cccX bXbe fhfh iXiX XbXb Xjjj fXfh XcXc cdcd XXXj XgXg cece XXXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010101110 111110101111001 1000101011101010 111010101110101 1010001110100010 1111101001111101 1110111011100010 01100100111010111 0010101010100110 001111110010101 1010101001111100 111010101011101 1111101010101010 111110101010101 101101010101110 101110110111101 1101101011101010 101010101010111 101010110101100100 111110101000101 1010101011100010 111010101100111 1011111110011010 010000100010100 1101111010100110 100101001111110 1000101010101011 101110101010101 1011001001101110 111010101010101 1110001010001010 001011111011111 10011100110101010 111011101010101 1011111011110100 1011111010101010 111001011101100 111010101111101 0010011010101100 111010100111101 1110101011100100 111000100010101 11101110100101010 001011001010101 101110100011110010 1111101010111110 11111110111001110 101011101010111 1111101010101110 111110101011101 1010101010011010 10111010111110 1111111010101010 1111101111011011 1111111011111010 01111111010101 1010001001010110 101010111000101 10111001010101010 11111000101011101 11111011111011100 111110101010101 1010111001111100 101011101010101 10010101011111010 101011101010001 1010101110101010 011110101111110 1010001001101010 101010101111111 1111111110101010 111111001111111 1110111010101111 111101101010101 0010101011110100 111110010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, to, or, an', of, in, you, yer, years, ', for, ses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, an', 'we, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Kid;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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