This is an analysis of the poem Literary Mother that begins with:
HUSH, little ones don't make a noise
Pick up your dolls and pick up your toys,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccC ddeeffcC bbggcccc hhiijjcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111111111 1111011011 11001001110 1001101011 10011011111 1001111111 1001001011 1011001001 1011010011 1101001011 11111111001 1111001111 11111011011 1111011011 1001001011 1111111001 0111111111 11011101111 11111011111 111110010011 011011011011 111011011011 11101001011 11000001001 011010010001 11001101111 111010101001 101111010010 110111010010 01111111011 101111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; up, pick, your, and, you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pick, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word poe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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