This is an analysis of the poem Little Orphant Annie that begins with:
To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones;
The sober and the silent ones; the boisterous and glad ones;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbccddefFege aahhiieFFege ddjjkkeFFege fXbbjjefFege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100101111 010101010100111 001100111101011 101011101101 11011101110101 11010101110111 110101101110111 11110101010101 110101010110101 0100011110101 10101111 11 1 1 1 111010110101 111101110111 01011101010111 1111010111111 1110100101110111 1101101011101011 11110111011101 10101111 11 1 1 1 1110101110111 1110101110111 1111110011111 110110111101 1111101110111 1111111010101 111010101111101 10101111 11 1 1 1 1101010110101 101110101111 111010110101 1010101011001 11011101110111 1100111110101 11011101110101 00101111 11 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ones, and, to, an', him, she, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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