This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Luddy-Dud that begins with:
A sunbeam comes a-creeping
Into my dear one's nest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababABAabX cdcdABAabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111010 001111 11011010 0111101 10101010010 101010111 1111 100111 011010100101 1010 01001010 0100101 11011110 0110101 10101010010 101010111 1111 100111 01101010101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; 't, luddy, dud, little are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 't, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dud at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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