This is an analysis of the poem To My Infant Annie that begins with:
Motherless babe, I can't forbear to make
Some rhyme to thee for thy dear mother's sake.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddbbeeffggbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111001 1101111101 1101111101 1101101101 0111110101 1111000101 1011110111 1101001100 1011010101 1111011011 1111010101 1111110101 11110001 11110101 11110101 11101101 01010101 01111101 11110001 11001101 01110001 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 869
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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