This is an analysis of the poem Dilly Dally that begins with:
There is a little girl I know
Who takes her time to come and go.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababaBXCCX X ddededBXCCX X ffefXfBXCCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,11,1,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 11010111 011101010 11011001 110101010 11110101 0101010 1111100 0101 1101 1111010 1 10011001 11111111 0101010 11110101 1101010 100011101 0101010 1111100 0101 1101 1111010 1 10010101 11011101 11001110 11110101 1110100 11011111 0101010 1111100 0101 1101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and are repeated.
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