This is an analysis of the poem Song By The Window Before Bed that begins with:
Little Star, little Star,
Come down quick.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABccAB AXddAX ACeeAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 111 0100101 11110011 101101 111 101101 10100 0111101 11110111 101101 10100 101101 111 0101101 01011101 101101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; little, star are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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