This is an analysis of the poem A Boy's Heart that begins with:
It's out and away at break of day,
To frolic and run in the sun-sweet hay:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee ffaa cccc ggbb hhgg ggbb ffdd aahhXffhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011101 0101100111 011100111 1011110101 0110110101 101010101 1010110101 1011111001 010111101 1010011111 11110111 11011111001 010110111 1101001011 01111101 0111010111 010100111 00111001011 1010100101 0111101101 0100100111 010111111 010010111 00100101111 011100111 0011100101 01010101 010110101 0111011010 111101110 0100110111 10111101001 010111101 1010110101 010100101 101010101 101111101 010110111 1011110111 101110101 1011111011 00100111111 101010111 010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words it's, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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