This is an analysis of the poem Out Of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking that begins with:
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcefgfhddfficjfkaakiflma XjaXlidnflma iil lopmml iccci hlhhdq rsh dpff crrcaqffjasa jl ndjh cg dg fc dg fsg iecl dcdp fr csoc fffihf rlhhikh gsrr sjhf ibhhcX hfdhs aaaaaaasXcaaaaadad bhhrplfhhhjrfhsciih ss cbihff hcspoodccklo clhXmlffccdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,12,3,6,5,6,3,4,12,2,4,2,2,2,2,3,4,4,2,4,6,7,4,4,6,5,18,19,2,6,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010010 1001011010010 1001111 10010110101101 10011001100011 1001010 100101011101101 01001 10010011110 0010000111001 011001100010101 1011 010110111101101 001 0101010101110 01 00100100111001 001001011 0011011010110 011111010100 10110010110110 11011011100 011111010101 101110101001 1100111100011010 101101011010010 010101 1100 1011110011111 110 1011011 1101010101010 111111111001 11001011011111 110010111101100 11 11001101001101110 0100 10010010010 111 111111 11111010 1010 1111111 1111111 111011001 10111011 1111010 10010 10101001 110001111101 1011101101 1100101 11000110001001 111100100101010 100110001 11001001011 1111110000101011 01010101010 111 1111011001 111111111101 110110 111101001101 111010101 10110100101 11101 111010110111 111011 0111111101001 111110100110 10010011101100 11 0101001101001 111011 0111001010010 101101011011 10111 100101101001 1001110 111 110110101 1010100101011010011 11111111 1101011 001011100100101 11001100101 0101 11111111100101010 1011011111001 111 1110111 11111111001 1011110101 11111111 1101 10110101110 1000101011 111110011010 1111 010111111111111 10101101 11111111010010111 1101 0101111101010101 1111001 11010101 10101 11100011100111 1110 101010110 100101110 101011010101 110111111110001 11001010 1111 111110 1111010110101 111101111101001 11110101010 111010111111101000 01 1011 1111 0010111011101 01010111111 11010011 1001000100111 1001000100001 1101101 110101 1111011100 1110001101100101 110010001 111101 111010001000101 1111011101 001001101 11111 111111101 1101011 010010 1101000110 0110010010100100 010101110010010 101010011110 010110110110 010011110 01010001101001 010110 010011111111 100010 010100101100100 01110110 010010111100 0101010110010010 0011101001011 1010 001001 10111011 00010111111001001 11110111011011 111 10010111111101 101001010010110 101110011 0101001011001011 1001 11101010101100101 110101100101111 010101 1011101101001010 1010100101101001 1001110001011101 11001 101100101101 010010101001101 0011010001 1110101001111 101101111111 011110100 0110010001 1011100110 11100011010111 1 01001101111 10010001 01011001 1011011101001 11 100101101011 1011111 1001001010111101 11 110111001110111 1011001011110110 110 11111 111101 1101011010110 11101001111001 1 00100101110 1111000110 10001011001 0100101111 1110101110011 1111110010101 101001 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 210
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; out, of, from, and, shine, blow, soothe, love, with, it, loud, i, land, o, carols, you, loved, thousand, never, more, me, death, my, word are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, from, and, nor, blow, he, listen'd, loud, o, carols, that, the, never are repeated.
The author used the same word o 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 together, know, carols, you, sea, death are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words together, love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases blow, loud, carols connect the lines.
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