This is an analysis of the poem XXIV. 'There was a boy in some forgotten spring' that begins with:
There was a boy in some forgotten spring
Who fled from all his comrades at the school,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcd eefeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11010101001 1101011101 1001010101 1101101100 11110101001 1001011011 1100110111 0011110101 1101010101 1111010001 0101110101 1101010101 1110110101 0100011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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