This is an analysis of the poem The Little Girl's Song that begins with:
Do not mind my crying, Papa, I am not crying for pain.
Do not mind my shaking, Papa, I am not shaking with fear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbAAC cdedeecXafgffggfgeXEAC ceeehhfefeeEAC ceeiaieeAC XjjeieXkkeijejekecbcbckkaebebbcb XcacbbAAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,22,14,10,32,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101111011 111110101111001 1011101001 11101101 1011101 1010 110111110 110111101 0101101101 0111011011 11101111001 1100111011 110111010 10101110 10111101101 10110111 10111111011 1111101101 1100111001 1011111001 1111011111 111111101 1111011001 111111111 01111101001 1110100111 1011101 1010 101101010 1011110101 1111011101 01100111111 101110 101110 111101011 1111110111 11111101101 1011101101 111111111 1110100111 1011101 1010 110101010 11101101011 11111111101 1101011101 111110101 10101110111 0011111100 1011101011 1011101 1010 1011011010 1111101001 0111110111 1100111111 11111111101 11111111001 01101001110 101001111 1110111111 0111111101 111111101001 110101011 0111001 1111011111 11011111101 10111101101 11101011 011110110 111101101011 01111110 1011111001 11101011010 110101001 0101011011 11101001101 01111111001 011111111 01111111011 011111111 1111100101 10111110 1011011001 11111010 1111011 11111010 1111011 10111010001 11101101 1011101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 585
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, i, papa, and, white, see, she, you, her, it, green are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, somebody, and, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word papa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Little Girl's Song;
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