This is an analysis of the poem A Lover's Lullaby that begins with:
SING lullaby, as women do,
Wherewith they bring their babes to rest; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccde fcfcggcc fhhhggbb gbgbffgg fffhiide
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 100111101 11011111 11001101 01011101 10101101 110010111 11010101 11011100 10110101 11011101 110100111 01011101 01011010 11011101 11110111 11011101 11000101 110011101 11010011 01011101 01011101 11111101 01110101 11011100 11011111 11111111 11111101 01011111 01011101 11000101 11010110 11011111 10111111 11110101 11011101 01011111 01011101 11110101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; as, with, my, lullaby are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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