This is an analysis of the poem Old Boy Scout that begins with:
A bonny bird I found today
Mired in a melt of tar;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab aaaXca dedece cfcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 100101 01011101 010101 11011001 0100101 11110101 010111 11110111 0101100 11011111 010101 01010001 110001 11010001 110101 01010101 111101 01001111 011101 01101101 111111 11111001 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, i, to are repeated.
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- summary of Old Boy Scout;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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