This is an analysis of the poem The Bechuana Boy that begins with:
I sat at noontide in my tent,
And looked across the Desert dun, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaacc ddddeebX cfcXgghi hchcjjaa bhbhddaX dkdkbbll ldldllaX XaXabbdd ddddddbb jhjhbbdd mfmfaajj acacffll bdbddddd eaeakkdd abaXjjhi ddddgghh kdkdddhh akaknnbX jbjXaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 11010101 01010100 110001 10010001 01010101 01101101 10110101 01011111 10010111 01000101 110101 11010011 10010001 01011101 10000011000 10101110101 11010101 11110101 0100100 01110111 01010111 11000111 11010100 10111000101 11001111 11110101 1101101 10011111 1010111001 01010111 11011111 110101101 010110101 10110101 110101 01010111 10011111 11011101 10110101 11111101 11110111 110010101 110111 01110101 11010101 111011110 0100101110 1011101010 1111101 110101110 110001 0101001010 010111010 10011101 101101110 101010110 01011101 11100101 110111 11010101 11110111 11111101 11010101 1010000101 11010101 10111101 011101 11110001 11010111 11011101 11001101 101011111 11010101 01110101 110001 01011011 11011101 11011101 10111111 100011101 01110101 111101001 1010101 10010111 01111111 11010101 10010111 101111011 11011101 11011101 111111 11001111 01010101 110111001 11110111 100111111 11011101 11110101 110101 11011101 01111111 11011101 101010111 101011101 11010101 010011001 110111 11001101 11000101 11000101 01011101 100110111 01011101 1010011 011110 10010111 11011111 110111001 11010100 101101101 11011101 10111111 011111 11000101 11011101 11110101 11011101 101111101 01111101 110100111 000101 11010111 11111101 11110101 01010111 101010101 01011101 11010111 110101 01111101 110101001 11111111 1110011000 11100101 11101101 01010101 111111 11010101 01010001 11111101 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; with, in, and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and are repeated.
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