This is an analysis of the poem The Little Vagabond that begins with:
Dear mother, dear mother, the church is cold,
But the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa aXbb ccddXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101100101 101101011011 0111111111 11001001011 10101111111 10101011010 1111110111 1101100101 1010111111 110110110001 11011101111 111101011011 11101001001 01011011011 11111000101010 111111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines well is repeated).
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