This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 1341 - 1350 that begins with:
Alas, I am in love with a soft-skinned boy, who to all my friends
Reveals that this is true, though he does so against my will....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcaXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010011110111 01100111110110 11010101001011010101 1111000111011100 010111001101101 11110101100010 1111110100111 010101100101011 1110011000111110 100101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, of are repeated.
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- summary of Fragments - Lines 1341 - 1350;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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