This is an analysis of the poem Indian Boyhood that begins with:
What happened to the boy I was?
Why did he run away?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXacbXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 101101 11111101 1001101 1101 1111 1111001 111101 1101 0110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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