This is an analysis of the poem A Rocking Hymn that begins with:
Sweet baby, sleep! what ails my dear,
What ails my darling thus to cry?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcC adadCC efefCC gbgbCC ahahCC aiaiCC bfbfCC fafaCC ehehCC ffffCC ebebcC jijiCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 01111111 01111101 11011001 01111101 1111111 11011101 11011101 01011101 11011001 01111101 11010101 01010111 11110110 01011111 11011001 01111101 11110111 111101000 11010001 11010111 11011001 01111101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11110111 11011001 01111101 11011101 01011101 11001111 11010001 11011001 01111101 01010111 11010111 01010101 110011001 11011001 01111101 00110111 11110101 11110111 10111101 11011001 01111101 01011111 11111101 11110011 11110111 11011001 01111101 01010111 11011101 11110101 11010101 11011001 01111101 01110101 11011111 11011101 1111100 11011001 01111101 11110010 01011101 01010101 11111001 11011001 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, thy, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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