This is an analysis of the poem Cradle Song that begins with:
What does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacccaXaabaccca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 0011101 11111010 1011101 10101010 11101110 11101010 11101 1110101 0011101 10111010 1111101 10101010 11101110 01101010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; little is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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