This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of A Sleep-Song that begins with:
SISTER Simplicitie,
Sing, sing a song to me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabCcb ddbaaab Ccdeeed ccdfffd aadgggd ddddddedXDeDad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,7,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 110101 1101 110111 110101 0011 110111 110111 0111 101101 101111 100101 0001 110111 101111 1011 101101 100111 110101 1011 111101 101111 1011 110101 110101 110101 1101 111101 101111 1111 110111 100101 100101 1011 111111 111111 11 110101110101 110101110101 11 111101 11 111111 11 101101 11 101101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sing, and, then, when, low, now, let, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sing, some, and are repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now, low are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase low connects the lines.
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