This is an analysis of the poem Written In The First Leaf Of A Child's Memorandum-Book that begins with:
My neat and pretty book, when I thy small lines see
They seem for any use to be unfit for me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101111111 111101000111 1101100010111 010101110001 110101111101 111100011111 010111110111 111011110001 1100110110101 111100111001 101111110001 010111111101 001100011110 111101110101 11110010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 747
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, if are repeated.
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