This is an analysis of the poem The Principal's Office that begins with:
When I was much younger and believed,
Everyone was honest, wholesome......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcab Xddeee cdX bf X e XfX dXgf XgfXXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,2,1,1,3,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 10111010 11000100 101000110 111001010 110010101110100 101 101010100 10100100011111 100101011111 110001011111001 10001010101001 110100111111001001 11110110110100 01101 10011100 111101111 1101100111001001 1110100100101 111110110 111100 1111001010 0111110010010 11011000100111 1001 0111110101110 11 110101010101101 100101010100 11110011101 1 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, of, you are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Principal's Office;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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