This is an analysis of the poem A Baby's Death that begins with:
A little soul scarce fledged for earth
Takes wing with heaven again for goal... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB bab abaB cdcD dcd cdcD dedE ede XedE fefE efX fXXE ghgh hgh ghgX ijXJ jij ijiJ iXiC cicXiciC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,3,4,4,3,4,4,3,4,4,3,4,4,3,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011111 110100111 101111101 0101 11111111 110010111 111101011 11000111 11110101 11011111 0101 01011101 11010111 11110101 0101 01011101 11110101 11111111 11000100 01111101 11011111 0101 01011101 11010111 11111101 0101 11111101 11111101 011111001 10011111 1010101001 11010101 0101 01011101 11010101 11111101 0101 11111111 111101011 01010101 11111101 110110110 11110110 0101 11111101 110111 11110101 1111 11110101 011111 111111001 11110111 110111 111100101 11110 10111111011 0111 1001010110 1011 11110101111 1111 0111011101 0101011111 1101 10111110111 1011 0111010111 11011111000 11110010101 0111 01110100101 1001110111 1111010101 11110111001 1011010101 1111010101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; so, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
The author used the same words our, was at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Baby's Death;
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