This is an analysis of the poem To The Boy that begins with:
I have no wish, my little lad,
To climb the towering heights of fame....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedefdfd Xgdgghgh cicijaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010100101 11100011 11011101 11100111 11011101 11011101 01111101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11100111 01001111 10001101 01010111 11010101 11110110 01000101 111000100 01110101 010100011 01111101 11111111 11111111 11111101 010101010 11110101 111001010 11111101 111101001 01010110 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To The Boy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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