This is an analysis of the poem A Baby's Feet that begins with:
A baby's feet, like sea shells pink,
Might tempt, should heaven see meet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB babXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 1111011 11010111 0101 1111100101 111111 11111111 110110111 1111001 11111001 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 11
- 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; and is repeated.
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