This is an analysis of the poem The Fisher’s Boy that begins with:
MY life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean’s edge as I can go;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bcbc bdXd XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011111 1101010110 0111010101 11010011001 0111010101 1101011111 1101001101 1111010101 1101110101 1111010111 0101010101 0101011101 0101111101 0101110101 111001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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