This is an analysis of the poem Off To School that begins with:
IT doesn't seem a year ago that I was tumbling out of bed,
The icy steps that lead below at 1 a.m., barefoot, to tread, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddcccc eeddcc ffggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101111100101 010111011111101 11001010111111111 1111110101010011 1100011011111111 1101010111110101 0101010111110001 1101110011111101 1101010110110111 1100110101111111 1101010111110111 1101010111110101 0101010111010101 1101011101110101 1111111111110101 0101100101010111 0101110111110101 1101010111110101 1101111111110101 1100110111110111 1111110011101101 1111011101101101 11000101010111001 1101110111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, that, it, her, my are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word school at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Off To School;
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