This is an analysis of the poem Go, Little Book - The Ancient Phrase that begins with:
GO, little book - the ancient phrase
And still the daintiest - go your ways,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffgghhiih aaaiiaacc hhjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 11110111 11110101 1111101 10111011 1011101 11010101 11111111 1110111 11110111 01110001 10100111 01110101 10110001 1101101101 11010101 10110001 01001001 01110101 11111 101 11110101 11110001 01010101 01111101 010101001 01010101 11010111 11010011 1111101 11010101 10111111 1111110111 01100111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, by, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, the are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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