This is an analysis of Songs Of The Voices Of Birds: A Poet In His Youth, And The Cuckoo-Bird by Jean Ingelow.
Once upon a time, I lay
Fast asleep at dawn of day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddeeffgghaahi aajijhheXkkeeaahh XhggciXlffg hhaaahffhX hhhhghhgghh hmmaaeeeehhaam hnnhhhhkokXllXhhpp mmgg eeggXeeellllqqhmmhklXcckee jjbbggqgqg eelXlelmlml eeeeecce Xmmgghhhhhchhc ccehehXbllkkooXhaaah
- Stanza lengths: 18,17,11,10,11,14,18,4,26,10,11,8,14,20,
- Metre: 1010111 1011101 1010001 1010011 011 1101 0010101 1110111 1111111 1010101 1011101 01110010 10001010 111101 1110101 1110111 1110101 10101010 1011111 1110111 1010001 10101010 10110101 1011101 10111001 1111101 1011100 10111001 1011101 1111111 1000101 1110111 110000101 1010111 1010111 1110001 1010111 1110101 1010111 1000101 1011100 1111101 1110101 0110101 1011101 1011111 1010101 0011001 1010101 1010001 10101001 1110100 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010100 11111001 1010101 1110111 1010011 1010101 1011101 1110111 1111111 011011 0011100 100001 101101 1110101 10000111 1010101 00011100 1010111 1110111 0011111 1110101 11101001 1010011 1011101 0010111 1 110101 1010111 101110001 1110101 11011001 10010101 1110111 1110101 1110111 1110101 10111100 11110011 1110011 10101010 0110100 00100101 1010101 10101001 1111001 1111101 1011111 1001110 1011111 0011111 1110101 10000101 0010110 10100011 1110101 1010101 1010001 1010101 1111101 1011111 1011111 10100101 1101101 1111101 1110101 1001111 1011101 1010101 10101000 1101101 1011101 1010001 1010111 1010101 1101111 0110101 1111101 1110111 1011101 1110101 1110111 1010101 0001100 001111 1010111 00110111 11100011 1010100 1110111 1010111 1010111 1011111 10111001 1010101 0011001 1100101 1110101 1010101 1001101 1010101 11100001 111001 1011011 1111 1100101 1110101 1111101 1101110 11110111 1101011 1111101 1111101 1010111 1011111 0010101 1010100 1010001 1111111 1111111 1011010 1011100 11111010 1110111 1010111 0010111 101011 0010111 1010101 1000101 10101001 1010001 10100101 1110101 1011011 01010101 1010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 191
Repeated words/phrases
she, it, to, o, and, thou, more, no
Anaphora
that, o, laughed, and
