This is an analysis of the poem A Little Child Shall Lead Them that begins with:
Only a little scrap of blue
Preserved with loving care, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fdfd cgcg chih jbjb jhXX ibdb XcXc ekXkXagig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 010101 11110101 011111 11101010 111101 11101010 010101 11010101 111101 110111101 110101 01001010 110101 111001010 100111 01111010 110001 11101010 010001 11011010 111101 10101110 110101 10101001010 111101 11111010 101000100 11010010 110101 1111010 111101 110110010 011101 101010101 111101 11001011 110011 11011010 110101 10010101 010011 01111101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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