This is an analysis of the poem Little Croodlin Doo that begins with:
Ho, pretty bee, did you see my croodlin doo?
Ho, little lamb, is she jinkin' on the lea?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaa acXaaXaccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11010111101 11010110101 11010111101 10111010111 1011111101 1111110101 10010110111 11111101100 11101011001 11111011101 11110110101 1111001011 1001001001 11011011001 11110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ho, wee, my, croodlin, doo, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ho, looked, now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines doo is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word doo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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