This is an analysis of the poem These Little Songs that begins with:

These little Songs,
Found here and there, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdacdeefghhfgaaihihjjacca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1111 1001 11011 11110 01011 11101 11010 1111 11111 11011 1110010 01011 11001 010101 10110 1111 101001 01011 1111 111011 01111 0101 11111 101001 11000 01101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, to are repeated.

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