This is an analysis of the poem Little Popeet - The Lost Child that begins with:
Near by the silent waters of the Mediterranean,
And at the door of an old hut stood a coloured man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX ddcc eefX ggdd cXaf eeXc hhaa fadd ddeXXccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110101000100100 1101011110101 1111010011101 110010111001 101101110001 10110111010 1110101001 11110111101110 101011111101 1111101011 11010101100001 1111111101 10111110111 1010111101 1001011011 101010110100 1101101101 010010110111 111010111 011110101 001000110101001 111101010110 11101111011 1111111010101 101110001101 01010100111 1101010101000 111000101001 11010001010101 111011011101 0111110001 1101110110101 11101010001 1110001110101 110101000101 110101111111 1110101011101 1101010111011 1010111011101 111111111010 1101011111 1111101101011 111011010101 1110001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, my, i, of, she, he, his, father are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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