This is an analysis of the poem My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower that begins with:
WITH lullay, lullay, like a child,
Thou sleepèst too long, thou art beguiled!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbbC XdXddeeC dfdffaXC fdfddXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11111101 110111010 11111011 11111100 111001101 011101101 11010101 10011111 01101100 01111111 11011111 11110111 110101101 11010101 11001011101 1111011001 01101100 01010101 1110101 110101101 1101001101 110011101 111110001 10111101 01101100 110110101 111100011 110101111 01111001 11111111 01001100 101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; ba, bas, he, she, her, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, he, she are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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