This is an analysis of the poem Portrait Of A Boy that begins with:

After the whipping he crawled into bed,
Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedeffgagadfXffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001011001 01001101110 1101011111 11010001110 0111010101 0101011111 10010100101 1111110111 1111110101 1011111011 1001110101 0101010001 1011110101 0111010101 0111110100 1001011101 11011101001 0111001101 0111011101 010110000101 1101010010 1011000101 0101111101 10001101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Portrait Of A Boy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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