This is an analysis of the poem One From One Leaves Two that begins with:
Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddeeffgg hheeiijj aaaaeeiikk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100111 1111100 10011001 01111111 00111110 111101010 0011101 01000101 100100111 1010101 1111101 11010101 1110111 11010111 11010001 11010101 100111110 111001110 1110101 1110111 1111111 1110011 11111010 110101010 10010111 011010111 011101110 011101110 01010111 01110111 01110111 11111101 11011101 0010101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, they, and, you, more, less are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, then, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gentlemen connects the lines.
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