This is an analysis of the poem Hymn (For Boys' Voices) that begins with:
All the things magicians do
Could be done by me and you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb bXb ccc ddd aaa eee fXf ccc ggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011111 1001101 10101001 11110101 0101101 10010110 1010100 0110111 1010001 1010001 1010001 0010001 1010101 1011011 1011111 10101001 1110101 1010001 1010101 10001001 111000010 1010101 10101010 1110101 11010101 0111101 1110111 01101101 0110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Hymn (For Boys' Voices);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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