This is an analysis of the poem The Old Bark School that begins with:
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes
Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deae XXXf gfXf chdh iXhX hXfX ciji hfjX hkdkXjgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111011101 11101010101 10101011010111 11101110001 11101111010101 10111110111 11111011110101 100111010101 1110111101101110 10110101010100 110101010010010101100 11110010111 101010110100111 101111101010101 10101011010101 111010101010101 11101010110101 10101010101 111010011010101 10100111111 0110010111111101 11101011111 11111011111111 11000110010 11001110011001 111001101011111 11101111110101 1110011010101110 10100010010101 1011101010100111 10100011011101 1011101010100101 10111011010101 001010101010101 10111011011101 101011101110110000 10111010010101 001110101110111 11101010010111 0100100100110010001 11111010011110 00100000100011101 10101011110111 111110101010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, that, we, with, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The author used the same words and, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Old Bark School;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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