This is an analysis of the poem A Baby Asleep After Pain that begins with:

As a drenched, drowned bee
Hangs numb and heavy from a bending flower, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcXcXaXXXbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10111 11110001010 1101 1100111011 110101 0111101001011 101000110111 1101010111 10101111 1111111 11101011101 1001011100 1010 10100111 1010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, she are repeated.

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