This is an analysis of the poem Lullaby that begins with:
Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you;
Drift, and so lightly, on crystalline streams....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaecbcb afafacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101001 1111011011 100010100101 1110001011 1001000100100 1001001001 1011011100100 1101011111 110100110111 10011001011 110100100011 1001001011 100111100101 1001001011 110100100100 1101001000 110100101101 1011001011 101100100101 1001011011 1001011000111 1001011011 110110111111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sleep is repeated.
The author used the same word sleep at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lullaby;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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