This is an analysis of the poem Rocking The Baby that begins with:
I hear her rocking the baby--
Her room is next to mine--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbaB AcXc cXXcac Aded fgegfefeXfBebaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 010101 1110110101 110101 11111010 0011101 11010010 1110111 11110101011 0010111 11101010 100101 011010101 1000101 111110010 1111111 11010010 101101 11110100011 1011111 00101010 110111 111101011 1010101 11101110 1011111 11101010 00100100 11001010 0011101 1101010 1010101 101011010 0011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, her, and, rocking, she 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.
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