This is an analysis of the poem You Naughty Boy that begins with:
I smoked some weed.
I remember my first experience....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdcefbXXgfhXeXffh dfX a XXdfX iXgi hfdhX X XffX c edbXXacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,17,3,1,5,4,5,1,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1010110100 1110 11 11011100 11 11110101 10110010 0110101001 01110 11010101 10001010100110 010110 100011 001111 11100111010 110001010 1101 1110111 111100101 0111 11 11100011 11111111 0111 1 001 111101100 0100101 0101011 1 1111100 110110 11101 11 11 11000111 10101 111010 1111 1 110111 111011 010 111010 1110 111101101 10 0111 1 11 110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 You Naughty Boy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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