This is an analysis of the poem Nursing that begins with:
O hush, my little baby brother;
Sleep, my love, upon my knee.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef Xbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 1110111 111111110 1110101 111111010 1111011 010101010 1010101 11111101 1110111 11011111 1010100 11010101 101111110 01001101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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