This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of A Boy Who Lived At Nine-Elms that begins with:
Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns;
Nine bakers' baskets, with hot cross buns;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaaaddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11000101011 110100111 1110010001 11100000101 110101010101 110101101 1101001011 11010110111 11010110111 1110010111 11100111 11101110101 111011011 01111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; nine is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nine is repeated.
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