This is an analysis of the poem Love: To A Little Girl that begins with:

When we all lie still
Where churchyard pines their funeral vigil keep,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbdbdeXEafgfheeheiXdeeiegfaXedcXigcgjjkigXikihlggjjcljfjmfiejgnXfjkjffkXXjnfXkkamcAabagXbeimeiejmidmamgjkkjeXfmfddXamEeeemopcmmXaaempmmobmXmmmfejjeaddfXmmkiXlkbgXXmdecpXffXjjomkfgffkdikmimgkXmmddimkmmekmoeodkkbgjjjjkgkXemmddefhglXffhgjjdblbgigejggegmmji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 400,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11111100101 111110 10111 10100111 01101 1110011 111011 111110 111111 1010101 11101 1010101 11011 1111101 1011111 10100101 1010101 1011101 1011111 1011110 1110101 1010111 0111111 011111 1111111 11101110 0111101 1110101 01111110 1010001 1110111 01101110 0110111 1001111 10101010 11000100 11111010 01111001 1110111 1111101 11111011 100111010 1010010 11101001 01110101 1111101 01010101 1111111 01101111 1111101 10100101 1110111 110101110 1110101 1000101 1110101 1110101 1001100110 1111 10100111 1110101 1010101 00101 1101001111101 110011 1111010101 111100001 1100010001 000101 0111110101 0111111101 011111010001 1101011101 101001110 110101000101 111111101 11110111001 11110111 0010101 1001010101 1010101 11111100101 010010111110 11111 1111101 10101011 10101011 01010101 111010 11101 0011101 0110101 10111101 1011111 01010111 1110101 01011111 1001101 01001000111 1111010 010101000110 101100111 101010100 1001111 1011101 11111101 11111101 01101 1111111 0110100 1101001001 11010101 110100101 110011101 1111111 00111001 01111101 110101 111111 1101001101 1011111 1011011 00101001 010001010 1010101010 101010100 1001011111 11000100 1011101 1110011 110010100 1010111 1010111 010001010 1111111111 11011101 01010101010 1111010101 1111100111 1101011110 1101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1111110101 11110101 1111110101 110011 11011100011 010100101 1111010111 11010101 110001001 10001010110 1101000111 1101010101 0110101 001101101 1001111 0101011001 0101011100101 1001101101 0101000101 1101010011 1110101100 1101011101 101010101 1111110101 11110100 1000010001010 01010010100 1100011011 01010010001 101101001000 1011010111 10000110111 01010111010 0100110001 11011110 001110101 1001010101 1101010111 011001110101 11111001010 1100011 1100111101 111001000 0101011101 11111111 1101100101 101010111 101000101 10001000 1011010111 1010010101 1110101 11010111 11110111 101010101 100100100101110101 01010101101 1110111 1111011111 10110001 110101010 11010101 011100110101 0100110101 10010101110 11111101 0011010111 1010111 111110100 001010001 11111 01011101 1101110101 10101111001 01111111 11011111 101101010 1000101 0110001 1010001 100100101 1011101 11101011 1110111 0111101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1110111 11111111 1011101 1110111 0110101 0110101 0010100 0011101 0010101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1101101 1101101 0110111 0011101 10011101 11001101 1111101 0011101 1111101 1110111 1110101 11101010 10111010 1011100 10011011 101001100 1010111 1010111 1011101 11100010 11101110 11111111 1110101 10011101 11101110 01101010 0010101 111101 011110110 01011100101 11111 1111110111 1100111101 10110100 1111010101 1111111101 1111111101 0011101101 110110011010 1101110101 1101011100110 1101001111 10100001010 0101100101 1001001100 11010101001 11011010001 111111 01011101 011101011 11010001110 110101 0101110101 0101111111 1111011101 1101110101 11111101111 01111110 0011101 1111110101 1011111101 1001001101 1100111100 110101010 1011110101 1011010101 0111000100 1001010111 0001010100 11000110100 0101110111 11001100101 1111010111 1101110111 0100010111 0100010111 1101011111 11010111001 0101011101 11010010101 11011101101 100101 0101010100 011101 1101010101 1100011000 00111000101 111101 1100010101 110101000101 1100 1101010101 111010111 1011001010 110101 1101110101 10011101001 1001101101 111110100 10111101110 1011101 10100111 0010100 11010011 1110101 11111110110 10100111110 10010010110101 101010011 101111001 1010101 1010101 1110101 101110100 1001101 1011111 1110111001 10010100110 1110101 1110111 1000111 11011101 11011101 011011 1010001 10101011 1011111 01011101 1000101 1011111 1111101 110011010 10111010 1001001010 1010111 1010111 001111101 1001010111 10010110101 1011001010 110111010 10011010001 11110101 01010101 01111100001 010111011 110011101 11101111 10101 11100101 00101 0010011 0110011 11110010 0110101 11111 1101001111 1111011111 0111000100 0011011001 1101111100110 1001001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1358
  • Amount of lines: 407
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, to, him, and, of, or, for, light, ye, in, love, that, with, leaning, me, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words chirps, and, ah, or, the, with, will, that, in, leaning, from are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, house are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases stands, kiss connect the lines.

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