This is an analysis of the poem The Cunnin' Little Thing that begins with:
When baby wakes of mornings,
Then it's wake, ye people all!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbdebE ecccXdeaE ecffcaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1011101 10101 0111 1111101 1111010 110101 1111111101 010101 1101010 110101 1101 0101 01011010 0111010 1010101 11111101 010101 1101010 0011101 1111 10101 0110101 101001010 0100101 0010101101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thing at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Cunnin' Little Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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