This is an analysis of the poem Our Little Sister that begins with:
Weep, little shrinking spirits of the woods,
Hang down your fair, green faces, all ye leaves,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcd XeXac XdXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101010001 1111110111 1101010111 11111111001 0111000101 1001111100 1001110101 1011111110 0100010101 1001001101 1101110111 1101110101 1011010011 10010010101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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