This is an analysis of the poem Cradle Song that begins with:
O my deir hert, young Jesus sweit,
Prepare thy creddil in my spreit,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01110011 11111011 11010101 11111100 01011011 01011111 1111 1000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 9
- 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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Cradle Song;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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