This is an analysis of the poem Baby's Dreams (Second Version) that begins with:
WHAT doth the Moon, so lily white,
Busily weave this summer night?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcbcbdddX eeffgeXghX iiggXbbabbbagjdjkfkf hhgbbkkgiikkkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,20,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 10010101 1011101 11011101 11010101 11111 011100101 00111101001 10111101011 0101 010100111 1011100111 100111001 001010101 11100101 111100101 1101010010010 101010010111 1101110101110 10 0101010101010 1 100111 110101 1101 1011100101 101010 0100110 1101100 010001 0101010 0100110 1111010 1010111 11011 11111 0101 111001 1100101101 110111101 110101101 1100110111 110101 011100 0101111101 011101 010101 011101 0010101 0110010111 011 1111 1101001001 011111111 11010111 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, sailing, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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