This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Little White Girl that begins with:
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter?
Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110010 11110111110 01001011011 1001111101 10110110110 01111111010 1011011111 11101011101 10110111110 10111010110 1101011110 01101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, cabbage, tree are repeated.
The author used the same word cabbage at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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