This is an analysis of the poem Ragamuffin that begins with:
There's a boy that you must know,
Always ragged, dirty too;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbcbCXXdd X beebffbcbCXXdd X ghhghhacaCXXii X bhhXdXecXCXXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1110101 1010111 1111101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1000001 10001000 111111010 1011101 1110101 1 1010111 1010101 10111101 1010101 1111101 1011111 1111011 1011101 1110110 1000001 10001000 11111010 11101001 1111101 1 1111101 1000101 1010111 1110101 1010100 1010001 1011101 1010001 0110101 1000001 10001000 11101110 1010111 1111101 1 1011111 1110101 11101001 1001100 1010111 1011111 10010101 1010111 1111111 1000001 10001000 11101010 1011001 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, ragamuffin, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ragamuffin, some are repeated.
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- summary of Ragamuffin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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