This is an analysis of the poem About May that begins with:
One night Nurse Sleep held out her hand
To tired little May.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccX badaXa acdcXc aeaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 010101 11010100 111101 1101111 1111 00110111 110111001 011111 1110111111 1110101 001101101 1001101 110110111 1111001 110011111 111111 101111111 1101001 1110101101 110101 1111101101 0111001 10111111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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