This is an analysis of the poem When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy that begins with:
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa cDcB XDXB eDeBXbDba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 01101101 01011101 1010101001 11110101 011 11111111 101 11110101 011 110011101 101 11111011 011 01111101 101 011010110 011 11111101 1110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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