This is an analysis of the poem The Fisher Child's Lullaby that begins with:

THE wind is out in its rage to-night,
And your father is far at sea....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababCDCDefefCDCDbbbXCDCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100101 11100111 0110100111 1111101 1111 100101 11111 111110111 0101100111 1010111 1110101101 1100111 1111 100101 11111 111110111 110111011 0011101 1110101111 1110101 1111 100101 11111 111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 781
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; sleep, low are repeated.

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