This is an analysis of the poem The Bread-Knife Ballad that begins with:
A little child was sitting Up on her mother's knee
And down down her cheeks the bitter tears did flow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acXc XdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110110101 11101010101 1111010110101 1100011111 10100101010111001 10100110101 111111001101010 1101010001 10 101011100011 0101011101 10111100011 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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