This is an analysis of the poem Lullaby that begins with:
Lullaby! Lullaby!
There’s a tower strong and high...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccccddeeffeeggbbhhiijjjba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10010111 1011111 1010101 01100111 11010101 01110111 0011101 00110101 011100101 11011101 10010101 1010101 11010101 11010101 0110101 11111111 01011101 11001110 01010111 110010111 11111111 1010000101 0011101 11110101 1001101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 871
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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- summary of Lullaby;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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