This is an analysis of the poem The Little Boy, The Wind, And The Rain that begins with:
Sometimes, when I'm gone to-bed,
And it's all dark in the room,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXcdcdceceX X bfbffbfgfgheheX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 1011001 1111101 1010101 1110111 100101100 1110111 1010111 1111101 1110101 11101010 1111101 11101110 0010001 1111101 1 0110101 1010101 1010101 1001101 1011101 1010101 11111011 1110111 1110101 1001001 11101010 1111101 10101110 1010101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
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