This is an analysis of the poem The Castle-Builder. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third) that begins with:
A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks,
A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc cccc dbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 0101011101 0101000101 11011010101 0101010101 11010010101 1011000100 0101010101 10010101101 1001011101 1001010111 0101011101 1111110111 1011010001 1001000101 1111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; with, and, there, be, other are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, there are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Castle-Builder. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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