The Little White Rabbit by Dora Sigerson Shorter: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Little White Rabbit that begins with:

‘May I go to the field,’ said the little white rabbit,
‘Where the corn grows sweet and high?’...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXbXbabcbXbXbabcbbdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011010110 1011111 011101101110 1111110 10101111001 1101101 111101101 1111011 11111010110 1011111 11111101110 1111101 10101111111 1110101 01101111101 1111011 1011011010110 1011111 101101011110 1110101 00101111110 00110101 1110010111 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 986
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, she, as are repeated.

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

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