This is an analysis of the poem The Boy Next Door that begins with:
There's a boy who lives next door;
And this boy is just as bad... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdde X fgfgchhX X ididhddh X jdjdkllk c bmbmaceX c jnjnbccX X iliXgbbX X bbbbeiic XXibibbkkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1010111 1011011 1110111 1111111 1111111 1010111 1111100 1 1111111 1111101 1110101 1010101 1110111 1110101 1010111 1110010 1 10100101 1110111 10101001 1011011 1010101 1010101 1111101 11100111 1 101011 1111101 1011101 1111101 10101001 1010101 1010101 1011001 1 1110111 1011111 1000101 1110101 1000111 0110110 1010100 111101 1 1011111 0010101 1011111 1011111 1010111 1011101 1111101 0110101 1 1010101 1011101 1111101 10111100 1010101 1110101 1111101 1011101 1 1000111 10111001 1110101 1110001 0010100 1011101 1011011 1010111 1 1110101 1010101 1010101 0111111 1010111 1011111 0111111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; boy, her, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, on are repeated.
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