This is an analysis of the poem As It Looks To The Boy that begins with:
His comrades have enlisted, but his mother bids him stay,
His soul is sick with coward shame, his head hangs low to-day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccXacc ddeecc ffgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110101010111 01010101011101 01110101010101 111111111111101 101010101010101 111110101010111 111011101111101 101011101010101 101111111111101 011010110010101 101010101110111 01010111100101 101010100110111 1010100111111111 101111101010111 111000100011001 101011101010101 011111110110101 111110101110111 011011101011101 011011101110111 101011101111101 101110101110101 111000000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, him, as, he, that, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, is are repeated.
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