This is an analysis of the poem Baby Feet that begins with:
Tell me, what is half so sweet
As a baby's tiny feet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd ccaaeEff eeXghhgg ddeEiiaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1010101 1110110 1010001 1010101 1011101 1010101 0010100 0010111 1000101 1010111 1011101 1110011 10101001 1011101 1011111 1011111 1010111 10111010 10111010 1111111 0110111 10111001 1010101 1011101 1110101 1111101 10101001 011101 1011001 1111101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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