This is an analysis of the poem On The Bosom Of The Deep that begins with:
In the past time long ago, when a little babe was young :
When a little baby, spotless, in its cradle went to sleep ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c ab dX bc d eB fX be f eB f bc f eB c X Xd cXeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111011010111 101010100010101 1011101100001 01001 11011111010001 11010111010101 1100010111011 1 010100100111100 1 101110100100100 01 1111010110001 111111001011 1 1010111001010 101 1011001010100 01 111100100110001 1101010011111 110111010111 11 1010101010100 01 01011101010101 111110111111010 111 1101010111010 1 1011111010100 01
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; when, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, she, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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