This is an analysis of the poem When A Little Baby Dies that begins with:
When a little baby dies
And the wee form silent lies,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdX eedbXfXX aaXbffXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 10101110 1010111 11111010 11111110 11101110 1111111 1111101 0010111 11101110 0011011 11101100 11111010 11100011 1110101 1110100 1110111 10011010 1110101 10111010 10101010 01101011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; little, and, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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