This is an analysis of the poem Little Boy Bad And Little Girl Rude that begins with:

My nurse she tells me stories, too,
To make me good, she says; but I... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc deedff b ffbbbb X bbbXbb X ffggg X XXXcc b ffbbbb b ggbbb X aahhh X Xfddd X iifff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,6,1,6,1,5,1,5,1,6,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 01101111 11111101 10110101 11111101 11011101 11111101 11100101 01110111 11110101 11011111 01011111 1 10110111 0100101101 01111101 00110100101 111100101 1010100101 1 11111101 1010011111 111101001 11111100 01111100 1110100111 1 01011111 11110101 10011101 11010001 11110101 1 11010101 11111101 110111101 11111101 11111111 1 10111100 11000111 11111101 00110100101 111011101 1010100101 1 11111101 010100101 1010111001 1010011111 011101111 1 111100101 11110111 11010101 01010101 11010101 1 11011111 11111100 01010101 01010101 11110111 1 11110101 10011111 10010111 11010101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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