This is an analysis of the poem Lesley that begins with:
From the little bald head to the two little feet,
You are winsome, and bonnie, and tender, and sweet,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaB aaaB aaB cccB ddB eeeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 001011001101 111011011011 11101111 11001011001 0100111001 11111011111 11101111 101001001101 011001011001 11101111 110111001001 101101111011 110010010001 11101111 11011111011 01011010011 011111111 0111111111 01111001001 01111001111 011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you're, thing, you, because are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word because is repeated.
The author used the same word you're at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thing is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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