This is an analysis of the poem Paper Boats that begins with:
Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcaccXXdXXXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111011111010 1 011101111101010 010111 1111101110101 1111 1111010101001101 111100100101001 001 1111011110001110 1011011101 11111101001101 0101011 111110110111111 1011111100111 01001110001010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 808
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Paper Boats;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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