This is an analysis of the poem Home And The Baby that begins with:

Home was never home before,
Till the baby came....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccBdBdBeeeBeBeBeeeB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 10101 1110101 10101 1111101 1010101 1011101 10101 1110101 10101 1010101 10101 1010111 1010111 1010101 10101 1110111 10101 1010111 10101 1001111 1110101 1110111 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; never is repeated.

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  • summary of Home And The Baby;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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