This is an analysis of the poem To Beatrice Stuart--Wortley Ætat that begins with:
Patter, patter, little feet,
Making music quaint and sweet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa ffaa ggee hhcc ggii aajjXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1110111 1111101 1010101 1010111 1011101 1101111 1010101 10101111 1011011 1010111 1010101 1110001 1010101 1110100 1111101 1011101 1010101 0010100 1001101 1111111 1111111 1111101 1111101 1010011 1111111 1010101 1111101 1010101 0010001 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; patter is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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