This is an analysis of the poem Little Pierre's Song that begins with:
In a humble room in London sat a pretty little boy,
By the bedside of his sick mother her only joy,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddaa eeaa ffdd ffaX ffgg hhbb iihc bbjj jaff eecc chdd cXaa ffcX jjkk ffii iiaa jjii Xhii cckkXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010101010101 1011001100101 1111001111011 111111011011 1111001011101 100101010001 1111011110 110101101000101010 11110101101 1100010101011 11101010101 10011101010111 111111011010 1011101010 111101111 110101101000101 111010111 110000111 101010100111 0101011010101 1111011110110 101110101010 111010101001101 101011111001000 10101011100 110010110101110 11110100001 1001011001101 110011100011001 10010101010011 1111010100011 111101100110101 11110101111101 110111011011 1011110001001011 11111111010011 110100100111011 11010100011 110010100101 111101101101 110101011101 1111101111 11111011101 11110111101 10111101101110 111111011110 111100111 100111001 1111011111100 11011010100101 1011111101010101 1110101011111 110011101101 1100001010100 101011011101001 1010101110101 11011100010101 0110100101101 1110101111101 111000100110100 1001011111011 101110010111 110101010101 11011001101 10111110100111 10011001011001 1010111101 11100010110101 110110010101 11001111010111 111100110111 1111000100101 101011001111101 111101110101 10110010110101 1111110111111 01111101010010100 110001011110110 0101010111011 01101001110101 110111110101 1110100101 1011111110101 11000010101 1010000111010110 11000111001011 101100110101101 111001001100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, song, to, and, servant, in, his, dear, you, of, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, and, then are repeated.
The author used the same words then, and 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 song is repeated).
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