This is an analysis of the poem Baby's Got A Tooth that begins with:

The telephone rang in my office to-day,
as it often has tinkled before....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXXdaeaX afgfXahaceaX ihihhdgdXXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011011001 101011001 11011001101 101011001 111101101001 01001010 00111111010 01101001 10111001001 111001101 11001011111 11011101 11101110111 1101001101 111011101001 111011001 1010110111 0111001001 110010010011 1111001 1111010110 1111001001 11100111011 111011101 111001011001 11001011 101001011001 11111011 10101010101 101111001 101001101001 11111001 1100111101101 001010 110010111111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to, i, my, been 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Baby's Got A Tooth;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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