This is an analysis of the poem The Runaway Boy that begins with:
Wunst I sassed my Pa, an' he
Won't stand that, an' punished me,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXc Xdcc dXXe aXXf aacc eeff gghb bhXdXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101111 1111101 1111111 11111001 11011101 11010111 00101110 1001101 1111111 110111001 1110111 01111001 1110111 1110101 1011111 11111011 1110111 1110101 1111100 1111111 11010101 0111111 10011101 1111111 1011111 10111011 1111111 1111111 1110111 1111111 11101111 1111111 11101111 1011111 1010111 1010101 1111111 1011111 1111101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', i, to, she, kissed are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, an', kissed are repeated.
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