This is an analysis of the poem The Widow's Lullaby that begins with:
She droops like a dew-dropping lily,
'Whisht thee, boy, whisht thee, boy Willie!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAX bCCCB AaX bCccB AAXbCDCCBDd AAX bCCDcBDC AAX eBEbEBcc AAX BeBefeXXcfbXXbXbggXcc aAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,5,11,3,8,3,8,3,21,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 11111110 11111011110 0111001 11101011 11111001 1011001101 1001101101 1111011010 11111110 11111011110 0111001 11101011 11111001 101101001 101101101 1111011010 11111110 11111011110 01111001 11101011 10110 11111001 1011001101 1001101101 10110 11010110 1111011010 11111110 11111011110 0111001 11101011 11011001 10110 101101101 101101101 10110 11011001 1111011010 11111110 11111011110 01101101 01101111 111111001 10101101 111111001 1111011 111111011 1011001101 1111011010 11111110 11111011110 1111011 001101101 01101111 111111111 101010101011 001111001 10110110101 101101101110 111101001111 101010101011 10111111 1111011 111011 1101001 11111010 1111111 1010111 11011111 0101101 11101011 101101101 1111011010 11111110 11111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whisht, thee, boy, never, ever, and, merry, they, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but 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 never, dearie are repeated).
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