Poem Analysis of With Lullay, Lullay by John Skelton for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With Lullay, Lullay that begins with:

With lullay, lullay, like a child,
Thou sleepest too long, thou art beguiled!... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbbC XdXddeeC dfdffaXC fdfddXeXf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,9,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01010101 110111101 1010111010 1101110110 1101110100 1110011010 011101101 11010101 10011111 01101100 01111111 11011111 11110111 110101101 11010101 11001011101 111101101 01101100 01010101 1100010101 110101101 11001001101 110011101 1011110001 101111010 01101100 110110101 111100011 1101011011 01111001 11111111 01001100 1011011011 110100
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
Average number of words per stanza: 45
Amount of lines: 34
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 lie, 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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