This is an analysis of the poem How’s My Boy? that begins with:
“HO, Sailor of the sea!
How’s my boy—my boy?” ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXaaBaacccXc AdbdbdcdbcecbcXABbeebccbAbbAba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001 11111 011101 1010111 11111101 11110110 111101 11101 11111 111111110 101001 1111101010 11111 11111 1011111 1111110 11011 1101110 101111 101101010 111011 11111110 011111 01111111 11111001 1111110 10111 11111 11110110 1110010 010110101 10110101 0101010 11111 10011111 1001010 11111 11110110 11110 11111 11011110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; boy, s, my, or, no, i, speak, low, be, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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