This is an analysis of the poem The Beautiful Land Of Nod that begins with:

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc ddddXded dedeXeXeXbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111101 1110101 1101100101 00100101 010110110110 01011111 0010110111010 101011101 111111111 11101001 1101100111 1110101 101101111011 10110111 10100111001 1101101 1110100111 1110111 1101110101 00110101 1010011111 101001001 1111111110 11101101 10110111101 01110101 111111011111 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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, your, that, land are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words away, on are repeated.

    The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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