This is an analysis of the poem A Baby In The House that begins with:
I knew that a baby was hid in that house,
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcc dedebX fgfgdX heheaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011011 1111101111 101011101101 100111001101 111011010010 1111110111110 01011011111 101001111001 111001001011 111101101101 101001011110 11101101011 111001001101 101111011101 10110101011 111011101101 101111011011 11100101111 11101011101 11101111111 11101111101 01101101011 11101011101 111101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; that, i, and 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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