The Itinerant Singing Girl. From The Danish. by Lady Jane Wilde: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Itinerant Singing Girl. From The Danish. that begins with:

Fatherless and motherless, no brothers have I,
And all my little sisters in the cold grave lie; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabBccbBbbbBccbB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110011011 111101000111 10010110101 1011010111 101100110011 101111010101 100110110111 1011010111 111101110111 1110010111111 111010011111 1011010111 101101110111 1011000011111 101110110101 1011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 764
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word none is repeated.

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