This is an analysis of the poem Baby's First Journey that begins with:
Lightly they hold him and lightly they sway him-
Soft as a pillow are somebody's arms.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXab XcdXc dcedc efXef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110111 1101011101 1111010110 10010010111 1011001001 10010110111 1011011011 101101100110 11010101011 1011000001 10110110110 1001001001 1111011010 11010010010 1011001001 10110110110 10111001111 1111010110 11010010110 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, him, and, or are repeated.
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- summary of Baby's First Journey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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