This is an analysis of the poem Through Sleepy-Land that begins with:
Where do you go when you go to sleep,
Little Boy! Little Boy! where?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaabb cbccbb dBddbb efeefbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 1011011 11011011 1101110111 010010101 0100101 111111101 101101 101101101 110011101 111101101 1010101 111110101 1011011 110100101 100110101 101110101 1010101 1111111111 1011011 11101101 01011111 110101101 010100101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; little, and, boy, in, there, 'way, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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