This is an analysis of the poem Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters - Part The Second that begins with:

And now, thou elder nursling of the nest;
Ere all the intertangled west... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,18,129,26,10,20,6,42,35,39,25,30,75,59,27,31,61,82,13,22,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 792
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love, their, it, her, i, sick, my, of, in, and, common, he, they, thy, content, what, or, ye, whose, you, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, even, a, this, caved, so, he, they, not, if, in, what, of, whose, go are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, be, seas are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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