This is an analysis of the poem Boy And Egg that begins with:
Every few minutes, he wants
to march the trail of flattened rye grass...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbXcdcdbeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10011011 010101011 10010100 11111 01011010111 0110011110 001101010 111001101 1101101001 100100111 100001001 110101 11001010 0001010 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Boy And Egg;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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