This is an analysis of the poem Why I Was Sent To Boarding School that begins with:
to lengthen my hemlines and straighten
my morals...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c d d be XX fg bb Xhcdbcidfg bdihhbd jedXaj cfXgXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,10,7,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111110 110 0111100 01110010 011010010 010011110 110010101 01101101 010100 0101110 111110101 0111010 1110 010111101 00111 0111111 0110001 01011110 101111101 111111 101010111 1100010 01101010 110110 1011001 1011001 101111 11111 0111 001110 1011 11010101 101100 100011111 01110101 0101001 11111 001010 1101011 111010 0100100100 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words because, to, not are repeated.
The author used the same words because, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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