This is an analysis of the poem The Little Boy And His Shadow that begins with:
There's something now that no one knows,
That never seems to mind me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ababdXde fgfghfhi jbjbkiki dbdbbblb kdkdbmbm bglggigi dXdahghg hghgdddd hXhkaeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 1101011 10011111 1101011 11011111 1100010 01110100 1101010 11111101 1100011 11011101 1001111 11010100 0111110 10111011 0111111 10110001 1111010 11011101 1101110 11010101 0100011 11111101 0111010 10011111 1101011 11011011 11011011 11110111 1110010 10011101 0101110 11011111 0101011 10011001 1101011 11010101 1101011 01010100 1101011 11010111 0101110 11010111 1110010 11010111 0110010 11010111 1101110 11010011 1101010 01111100 0111010 01010101 0101010 01111101 11001110 10111101 1101010 01011001 1110010 01010111 0111010 11111010 1100110 11011001 1101110 11111101 1111110 110000101 1111110 10111101 1111010 11011101 1001100 11110101 1100110 111111101 1111011 01011101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; that, it, and, there, i, as, me, it's, sometimes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, why, sometimes are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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