This is an analysis of the poem The Worry-Chaser that begins with:
COME here to me, little lassie of three,
And get in your place on your old daddy's knee,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccdddd cceeaaXaadddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101001 11011111101 111011111001 11011101111 111111101001 101101001001 11011101101 101011101011 11101011001 11011011101 11101111001 11101111011 11011111011 11111111111 1111111111 111101111011 101111101111 1101011011 111111101001 111001111101 101101111001 01011101011 11111111001 11011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, i'll, your, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you, i are repeated.
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