This is an analysis of Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field.
Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,--
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba cbbb aabX XcbcXaaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110101111 101100101 10010010110 1001101011 011101101 1001001001 00111011010 1011000101 010100111 101110101 1100100110110 1011011010 10011101 00111100101 111010010110 0100111111 1110101111 101100101 1111011110 100111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
little
Anadiplosis
swinging, calling, sleeping
