This is an analysis of the poem Little Bo-Peep that begins with:
Little Bo-Peep, she has lost her sheep,
And will not know where to find them;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb abdb dXeb fgeg ehai jigi gbhb jdgd gaka ckXk adcd fiai bfhf kdbd aigi Xbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111101 10111010 1110011101 1011010 101111001 11111010 11011111 11111010 1101111111 111110111 1010011101 0111010 1100111101 1100101 010111101 0101001 11000111001 1111101 1010101101 11101010 1111110101 11011110 111010111 1001010 1010111111 11111010 11101111 10111010 100111011 1111001 01101001001 11101001 100111101 1111001 11101111101 1110101 11110111 10101001 110110101 11001001 101010101 010101 01110111 11001011 111111101 101011010 1101010101 011100010 111111011 0111101 00111101101 0101101 110110111 1111101 111110101 101111011 1011111111 1011110 001001001001 01110110 101010110110 0111010 101111101 011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, in, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words little, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words them, fire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Little Bo-Peep;
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- idea of the verse;
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