This is an analysis of the poem A Cradle Song, The Arbor Of Amorous Devices, 1593-4 that begins with:
COME little babe, come silly soul,
Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeaa fgfgaa hihiii hjhjcc jjjjjj jejeaa kakaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11011101 11110111 10100101 11011101 11111101 11011111 01001101 11010101 11111101 11111111 11111111 11011101 11011111 01010111 11010001 11110110 11011011 11111111 11011111 11111101 11111111 11010111 11010101 11001101 11010101 01111001 11110101 11011101 11111101 10010111 11100101 11010001 01011111 11010101 11011101 11111011 11011101 11001101 01010111 11010111 11010101 11011101 11011011 11111111 01111111 11111101 10110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; thou, dost, i are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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