This is an analysis of the poem The Barefoot Boy that begins with:
Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaffeeee eebbddXfcccgghhaaeebbddddee aaXXbbffaaiiccffbXhhhee ffffiiffeXjjee aaffhhiiffffcXffaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,27,23,14,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1110101 0111101 1110101 0111101 11110101 0011111 1111101 0111111 1110111 1110111 1000100 10101001 1110101 1111111 0010111 1011101 1011111 1110101 1110101 1110101 1010101 0011101 00110111 1011100 0010001 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 10100101 1010101 1010101 1011101 10110101 0011101 1000101 10101001 0110100 1110111 1010111 1010011 1010011 1110001 1010111 1110101 1000111 1111111 1110101 11101011 1011101 1110101 1010101 11101101 1010111 1011101 1011101 10010101 1010101 10111001 1011101 1110101 1001000 1110101 1011101 1011111 1010011 1010111 1110101 1110111 1011101 1011111 10110101 1010111 101001001 10100111 1110101 0011100 10101010 10101010 1111111 1010111 10011101 1111111 1010101 10100111 10011111 1110001 10010011 1011101 1111111 0010101 1010001 1011101 1010101 1110101 1001101 1011001 1001110 11100101 1111111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; thy, of, where, her, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, how, where, mine are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word boy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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