This is an analysis of the poem The Baby's Feet that begins with:
Pinker than the roses that enrich a summer's day,
Splashing in the bath tub or just kicking them in play, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ccdd ddee aaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010101 1000111110001 1000101110111 11010011010101 10010101010101 1011101111110 101010110001 10110100110111 10101010101 10101011101 1010101010101 1001101010111 1011101110101 1010101010001 1010101010001 10100111110101 1011101111101 101111010001 1011100001101 1110101110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, as, not, sign, of, to, never, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, never are repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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