This is an analysis of the poem Bored With School that begins with:
I became extremely bored with school,
At an early age....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXbcX cccd XXXX d X baXad cX Xb XdbX X dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,4,1,1,5,2,2,4,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 11101 111111101 010100 1 11111100 10101010 01101 110011 11010111 1111 1110101 11110 1 10100 111101010 110101101100 01 11000 111011010 1 01110101011 11 111 11011101 10111 11111010 110 1000 10100010 100011010 1111001 01 101101 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Bored With School;
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