This is an analysis of the poem Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary? that begins with:
Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 10110110110 10110111110 11111010110 10111110110 11111111010 11110110110 11110010110 10010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, my, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sleep is repeated.
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