This is an analysis of the poem Gascoigne's Lullaby that begins with:
1 Sing lullaby, as women do,
2 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 dbdbbbhh fffhiide
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1100111101 111011110 111001101 101011101 110101101 111010111 111010101 111011100 100110101 111011101 1110100111 101011101 101011010 111011101 111110111 111011101 111000101 1110011101 101010011 101011101 101011101 111111101 101110101 111011100 111011111 111111111 111111101 101011111 101011101 111000101 111010110 111011101 111010111 111011101 111111101 101010110 101011101 111011111 111111101 111011111 110111111 111110101 111011101 101011111 101011101 111110101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; as, with, my, lullaby are repeated.
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