This is an analysis of the poem The Humming Top that begins with:
The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song
To my dear little boy at play -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbcaac dedeaaaXXa fefebbbggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100111 01110111 10010111 101011001 111101 11001 11100101 01101 11001 0110101 11011101 1010111 11010111 010101 11001 0101 1011001 101101 101101 100101 0101110111 111101 010011111 11100101 01001 011101 1001101 1111 00101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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