This is an analysis of the poem To My Godchild Alice that begins with:
ALICE, Alice, little Alice,
My new-christened baby Alice, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbacad AaeXXeAcac AafggfAcac Aafhhfacad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 11101010 1110101 00111011 001001010 011001 10101010 1010110 01100110 0011100 10101010 11101010 1010011 01101010 1010101 00101 10101010 1010101 01111010 1110111 10101010 11101010 1010101 11001010 11111010 10101 10101010 1010111 01101110 1110111 10101010 10111010 0010101 11111010 01101110 00101 10011010 0010011 10101010 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; alice is repeated.
The author used the same word alice at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alice is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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