This is an analysis of the poem O Great Golden Head Lie In My Lap' that begins with:
O great golden head lie in my lap,
Sweet, sweet, lie there. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXAbabA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011 1111 1111111010 1111 111011111 1111 1011011011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; sweet is repeated.
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