This is an analysis of the poem A Little that begins with:
A little joy have I of ceaseless joy,
A little day of timeless day....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba XbXb XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 01010101 1111010101 11010101 11010011101 110000101 11101100101 11110101 1111110101 11011101 1101011111 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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