This is an analysis of the poem In The Cottage that begins with:
The little children wept and wailed;
Heart-rending were the tears they shed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAA baca daXa XXAA aeXe dfXf XgXg bbcb gfafXAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 11000111 10101111 11101111 01010001 10110001 11111101 10110111 11110110 11010111 11011101 10111111 01110111 11110110 10101111 11101111 11110111 01011111 11010111 11010001 010100110 01010111 11111101 10111100 10111101 11110101 10011111 11111111 11010111 01010001 10110111 10110111 010110011 11011101 10010101 11001111 01010111 11000111 10101111 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; mamma, you, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bread at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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