This is an analysis of the poem Mediaeval Eventide Song that begins with:
Come hither, lyttel childe, and lie upon my breast to-night,
For yonder fares an angell yclad in raimaunt white,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbX XXXX ccbX bbXX aAbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111011101 1101110100101 11011101100101 10110010110110 00111101101101 01011101010001 10111111110001 1100001110010 1011110110111 1101010010101 11110111110101 1110110110110 11111101111101 01111101110111 10110111110001 1101010010111 11110111011101 1101110100101 11011101100101 10110010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, lyttel, childe, ye, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word awaye at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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