This is an analysis of the poem The Admirers Of The Little Box that begins with:

Sing little box
Don't let sleep overtake you...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A bb aXX a XXX ccX XXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,1,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1111011 0101011 01110100 11100010 100000100 111111 101011 1110101 1111 111011 101110 1011 1111110 1101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
  • Average number of words per stanza: 9
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; your is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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