This is an analysis of the poem In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet that begins with:
Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content,
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaaXXbXbaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111110 1111010011 11110110111 11001100100 1111111011 1101110101 1111001101011 1101111111 11110100111 1111101101 1111101111 1111000101 1111011101 010101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; farewell, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words farewell, and are repeated.
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