This is an analysis of the poem Hey Nelly Nelly that begins with:
Hey Nelly Nelly, come to the window
Hey Nelly Nelly look at what I see...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcccX dXbbXX Xde eeX aXfffX ABfffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010010 1101011111 11000110111 10111111101 1101011001 101 11010101110 11010110101 1110111101 0101011111 110101110100 101 11010101010 1101011111 00111010111 111011101 1110111101 001 1101010010 1101011101 11010101 1010011101 11001010111 01 1101010010 1101011111 111111010111 1100010101001 010110110101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nelly, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hey is repeated.
The author used the same word hey at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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