This is an analysis of the poem Emily Sparks that begins with:
Where is my boy, my boy --
In what far part of the world?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXXabcbbXXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 0111001 0111101001 10100110101 1101110 0111110 1001101001 1010010 111111111 0100101011 11010010111 00100101 1101101011 1101011 11111 110101100101 11001001 101001011 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; boy, you, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, light are repeated).
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