This is an analysis of the poem De Little Pickaninny's Gone To Sleep that begins with:
Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo' bed,
Go to sleep an' res' yo' little head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXX CdCdXXcC dXeeffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110011 101111101 001110101 101110101 101010111 101011101 111010111 111010111 0101000101 1000101110 0101000101 1010111110 111110101 101010111 0101100101 0101000101 1010101110 101010101 101111101 101011111 111111001 101111101 101010101 101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; little, de, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
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