This is an analysis of the poem So, So, Rock-A-By So! that begins with:
So, so, rock-a-by so!
Off to the garden where dreamikins grow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabcbbCaA aabcbbCaAXaabcbbCaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1001011001 11001111001 11001111001 11001101011 001001011001 111 11111001011 111011 11101011111 111011101001 11101111001 11101111001 11001101111 101011011011 111 01111111011 111011 111111011 1011011011 11001111001 11001111001 11001101111 101101011011 111 01001011001 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, you, by, and, here, her, kiss, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word so at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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