This is an analysis of the poem The School-Boy that begins with:
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,
Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddeeffbbaaddee decceeggffbb hXeeii ccjjjjhheehhiijjffee ccbbhhhhaaffkkhhaabbllllhhddggaaiiiieef fccddbbccmmhhhhnnddddddee ffbbbbaabbnneeffccoohheemmff llnnhhbbhhccaacccceelleecceeiiXbbXhhnneeaaiieeeepXccbbaaaaccmmhhhhiiiiqqbbee bbccccllllbbXckknnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,6,20,39,25,28,76,76,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011101001 1011011111 01010100111 01010101001 0111000101 0111001101 0101011101 01001000101 1011000101 1101010101 0011011101 1111111111 0111011101 0101000101 1111011111 0011010101 0111000011 1011000101 1101111001 0111000111 1101010111 101011001001 1101011101 10111110101 11001101101 1101010101 1111000101 0101010101 10110001001 1101010101 10010110100 1101011101 1111111101 1111111101 1111111101 01011100110 1101010101 11001110101 1001010101 1101011111 1101010001 1101110111 01010001001 0111011111 11011100101 0011010101 011010010001 0101110001 1101110101 1101011101 11010001101 11010000101 1111111101 1101110101 1101000101 1111010101 1111111111 1101011011 11010010111 1111010111 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 10010010101 0101010111 0111010111 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 0111010101 0111011001 0111011111 11001111111 11010101001 1011010101 1011110101 1011011111 0111010101 1101010111 1101010111 1101000101 10110011001 1101010111 0011000101 1101001101 1011010101 01111110101 1111110110 1111010101 00110110101 11011100101 1111010101 1101110101 11011100111 10110100111 1101111101 11001010100 1111000101 01110011101 00010011110 1001110101 1101011101 11010111001 01001000101 0111010100 1111010111 1011110101 0100111001001 0101011101 10101110101 1001010101 0111000101 11010101011 0101100101 1100010101 11101010111 101101011 10110100101 1101000101 01011000101 10110000101 1001101101 1001010101 1101000101 0101110101 0111110001 0101010111 1011110111 1101010101 1111111111 1111010101 01010110101 0110010101 0101111101 01010101001 1111010100 1001010101 11010101001 0101010111 0101110001 0111010101 1101010111 1101010111 1101010001 1111110101 10111101001 0101010111 11010100101 0101011101 1011110111 110010010101 1001110111 1101110101 1011010101 0101010011 1101110101 01010100111 1101000111 1001011101 0101010110 01100100101 11110101011 10010100001 11010011001 11110011111 10011111001 10010010101 1101000101 0101110111 01001010101 01010100111 1011010111 1101000101 1111110111 1111011101 1101001110 1001111101 1101010101 1001011101 00110100111 1101010011 0101011111 111000101100 1110010101 110110001001 01010100100 0011110101 0011110111 1111011111 1101010101 1111110101 1011000101 11010111111 10110101001 0111010101 0111010001 11000111001 0101110101 1111010101 1101110111 100101111010 001101010011 110100101101 11001111101 10110010101 0101010101 1011010101 11110101001 1101010101 1101110101 1011010111 11111100111 01010001001 0011110101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1000010101 1101110101 1001111101 00100010101 11010001111 10010011111 0101100011 0101010111 1101011101 1101110111 11010100101 1111110101 11010010101 0111111101 0111000101 1101111101 11010100101 1011111111 0101100111 0101010101 1011110011 1111110101 1101110101 1001000110 1011011111 11011101001 1101000111 1101010101 0011010100 1111011101 11001011101 1101010101 01010010101 11001110101 1111111001 11110011101 1101010101 101100100001 10110111001 11100011111 1111111101 11100010101 0111111100 1111010101 0111010111 1111011101 1101110111 1110010111 1101010101 01010011101 11011100101 0111011111 11010101001 11010010101 11001010001 11011110111 01001100101 10010011101 01010100101 0111010101 0111110101 101010001 1011010101 01100111010 01001001010010 1101010101 110101100101 1101110101 1111011111 1011001101 1101010001 1101000101 1101000101 11010100101 01010101001 1101011101 1001110101 1101110101 0101010101 11001010101 1111001111 00101010101 01001010101 1001010101 01001010101 0111001101 11010001010 11010111010 1011010101 1101011101 1011011101 1011110101 1001000111 11010010101 0111010101 1011010111 0111111111 1001110101 1101110101 11111100111 11011100111 0111110101 1101110111 1111010011 1101010101 0111011101 01001000101 11010111100 0011110101 1101010101 1001000101 1110110101 1100011101 1001010101 1001011101 1111011101 1111010111 1011110101 1111001101 10011100101 11010101001 1011010111 00110110101 1111010111 1011010101 1111010101 11110011001 1111000101 11100010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010111 11110101011 01010010101 11001010101 1011001101 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1141
- Average number of words per stanza: 202
- Amount of lines: 354
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, our, so, as, i, to, you, his, of, its, big, it, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, no, much, a, his, where, whose, do, when are repeated.
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- summary of The School-Boy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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