This is an analysis of the poem It's A Boy that begins with:
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;
Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting hard for breath;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddbbcX eeffcX ggffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101110101 110110101110111 11010101110101 01011101110101 11010100110001 01000101010101 01010100010101 11110101010111 01111101011101 01011100110101 10010101011101 010101001110101 11110101010111 11010110010101 11110101110101 11010101111101 11111101011101 11110101110101 010101001111101 11001101101101 11100101110101 10010101110101 01111111110101 11010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; his, he, to, of, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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