This is an analysis of the poem Biddy, Be Kind! that begins with:
Now what do you want to be playing about for,
Reefing and reaching your head for the bit? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdeedfcfcXgggcceXehchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111110010011 1011011101 000100010111 11010111001 11110 101011 11001001101 11010 010110 01111111101 001100101100 01011101011 0101110100100 11001 11011110010 01111011001 011111110010 01111011111 1011 001111 010011111010 111010110010 011110111110 010111110010 11010101011 110111111110 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1108
- Average number of words per stanza: 211
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for, and, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
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