This is an analysis of the poem O Sleep, My Babe that begins with:
O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave,
Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling'ring strays ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc deXf fdge ahig fadi Xcdh cbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101001 1101111101 011101 111111 1101011101 1100110111 110001 110101 1111110101 0101110111 1100101 101111 0101010101 01010101001 1101001 100111 0101010111 11111100101 0111010 101101 110111011000 0101011101 1111001 111101 1111111101 0101111101 110101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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