This is an analysis of the poem My Little Doll that begins with:

I once had a sweet little doll, dears,
The prettiest doll in the world;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXaXBXb XBXbXaXA XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011 01001001 010111111 101111001 111111011 11100111 111111011 111011111 11111011 11100111 111010011 10101101 1011011011 10110111 1111011011 01001001 001010 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of My Little Doll;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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