This is an analysis of the poem Cradle-Song For My Son Carl that begins with:
Little Carl, sleep soft and sweet:
Thou'lt soon enough be waking;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXab cdcdeed ababffbXebebddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1101010 1011111 1100100 11101100 1111111 111010 1110101 101110 1010101 101010 1010101 1110100 101010 11000111 1100110 1110101 1101010 1011011 1010111 111010 1010111 111010 1010111 0111010 1010111 1011101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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