Analysis of The Desolate Boy
Having distorted face
the lad was shriveled up
From inner side.
Neither he was experienced with
friendship nor merry-making ride.
One day the lad entered
in a lonely garden,
Stealthily, silently.
He found nobody,
started to pick up apples confidently.
He didn't know
a man was standing behind a tree,
Observing the lad.
The man was the owner
and became very glad.
Suddenly the lad noticed him,
startled, hesitated
and thinking to escape.
But the man politely
asked the boy not to hesitate.
Having assured the lad stopped
and noticed the man,
having with one amputated leg.
His consciousness made him aware,
he was not a social dreg.
Scheme | XXAXA XXBBB XBCXC XXXBX XXDXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 100101 011101 1101 101101001 10110101 110110 001010 1100 111 10111101000 1101 011100101 01001 011010 001101 10001101 10100 010101 101010 1011110 1001011 01001 10111001 11001101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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