This is an analysis of the poem A Song About Myself that begins with:
I.
There was a naughty boy,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAabaCccdedffXXddgcchDIIDI XAAgjCkkllmaXlddXXddeeMneeMbbdDIIDI XAAdaeekkkkjjgccbbXennoodhddkkNNNNN XAAkakkkkppjjkkjXjXlkdkkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,35,35,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110101 010111 111111 111100 11 0011 01 1010 101 0110 011 111 011 110 110 111 111 011 111 11001 11001 001 001 11001 001 1 110101 1010111 110111 110100 11 111 001 101 111 0010 101 0010 11 0010 110 110 110 110 110 11 001 1010 11 101 101 1010 11 101 111 01011 001 001 01011 001 1 110101 1010111 111010 01011 01 001 001 101 00100 1101 1010 1110 11 1111 001 111 101 100 1101 101 101 001 101 01 001 1010 1010 111 101 0101010 010 010 0101010 010 1 110101 1010111 1101010 010101 111 101 111 101 111 101 1110 1010 111 11 1110 110 1110 101 1110 1010 111001 1110 110 1100 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, to, kettle are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, to, and, in, of, little, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cap, north, kettle, wonder'd are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word north at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of A Song About Myself;
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