This is an analysis of the poem Sephestia's Lullaby that begins with:
WEEP not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaAaabbAaAAccddccAAAAcceeffaAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111 11111110111 101101 1010101 1110101 1011111 111111 101111 1110101 1010101 1111010111 11111110111 1011101 111001 111001 11010101 11101001 1011001 1110101 1010101 1111010111 11111110111 1101101 101101 111111 1011101 111111 1110101 1110101 1010101 1111010111 11111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1543
- Average number of words per stanza: 202
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he are repeated.
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