This is an analysis of the poem Lullaby Of The Iroquois that begins with:

Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,
Wrapped in your nest, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbaa ccccccddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011011 1011 1011 11101011101 01111 01111 01001101001 11011101011 11111011101 1011001101 1011011001 1001 1001 11011111101 1011 01001 01001001001 0111001101 0101101011 1011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, in, nest, to, sleep are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nest, sleep are repeated).

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