This is an analysis of the poem The Death Baby that begins with:
1. DREAMS
I was an ice baby....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcadef ghgiX Xjkijlgmaiibc bkdb eXdaagaaaanikfndk d dgnXnoejefae a aakji obnnpd X jXjalXkoXqkhjdXlXinf g paaXnlialokaaaboagjn b hXcllogdclLpppppl kpqipo Lhiknabad LjabgedqgmiaXigebpf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,5,13,4,17,1,12,1,5,6,1,20,1,20,1,17,6,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111110 11011 1101111 111000011 110101 110101100 11011 110011 110101 11100001010 1111110100 10100100100 1111101011 0101011010 0100001010 1001 01101101 00101001110 0101101 01001110 111010 10110 01110 01111 1110110 1111 110110110 10110 011101 110101100 10100101 00111011 01110111 110101110 110101 01101100 1101 10101010 11111 11110 101101 111110 111001 11101 111 10111 1111 11 1111 011 11010010 1110011 10011 110 1101 01010 01011 110101010 1101 11101 0101 1011101 1011011110 110110 1111011 011111110 1110 11110 101011 110111 100 1101 100100 11011 100101010101 10101101 1111011 10010101 100111001 1101001111 11001011 1010111 01010001 0101100101 101011011 1111 0100111 111010 01111010 101110 11010010 11 111 1100010 1100010 1100 101 0111001 0110 01111100 1110101 111101 101011 01011111 1101011111 110101 1110 1111001 110101 1 111001 11001 110 1 110111010 110111 1101111110 11110 1010001 11101 110110 11111 11101 1111 1111 01001 101 11 11 1111 1010110 111011 1111101 1111110 11111011 111111101 1111 11111 100110 111 111010 11 1101001010 110101001 111010100011 1111 11111 011110 100110 1101 111 01011 0101 100100 1001 101100 1000110 11 100101010 101111 11001 110110 1100 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, seven, we'll, as, i, eye, you, my, outside are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my, the, and, she, her, letting, two, to, we'll, hair, you, we, outside, there are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines doll, times, it, eye are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase max connects the lines.
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- summary of The Death Baby;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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