This is an analysis of the poem Boys Bathing that begins with:
Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noon
Heaves with crushed lips and glowing sides...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbXcddXe ffabbagXgeaea fbhfbbccibbccicfjfj aaXccXbbfahf accfkkklklXfddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,19,12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 10111101 01011101 010101001 11010101 11110111 01010100 01011101 11000111 01010101 00111100 110001001 10111101 11011001 11010101 11010101 101100101 11111001 01010101 10010100 100101110 101100011 01010101 01010110 01010111 010010111 01001101 01110110 11110001 010101001 1010111 11011001 110001001 01110101 01110111 11010101 11010101 01100101 10010101 10111111 11010101 00011101 01111101 01111101 11111101 11110101 11110000 11110101 10110111 11010101 11110101 01110111 10110101 1101001 11000110 11011111 100010111 11011111 100010111 11111101 11110111 11110101 01110111 11110101 11010110 11111001 11011101 01111111 11111101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, to, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
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- summary of Boys Bathing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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