This is an analysis of the poem The School Where I Studied that begins with:
I passed by the school where I studied as a boy
and said in my heart: here I learned certain things...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeXafcXXbeXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110101 11011111101 11011011111101 011101111010 111010100001010 0100101000110011101 01101010000110 01100011110010111 11101101100001 1111101000111110 001010110011011011 10100010 0111101011 1010011000101 101001010 11001000111 101111000010 1101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 944
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, its, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i'm are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knowledge is repeated).
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- summary of The School Where I Studied;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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