This is an analysis of the poem Little Georgie Ball that begins with:

Fold the snowy cover under,
Where his pulseless form is laid, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacaX dedeacXc dXdXfcfX agegdcXc fhXhacfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10100101 11101110 1010111 10101010 1011101 100101010 110101 10111010 1010111 11111010 1010101 10111110 0011111 1010110 0110101 10111010 1111111 10111010 1110101 11111011 1011111 10111011 1010010 10101010 1111101 11101010 1110101 11111110 0010101 11100010 1111101 10101111 1110101 100011010 1110101 011010010 1010111 11111011 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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