This is an analysis of the poem My Baby Sleeps that begins with:
The wind is loud in the west to-night,
But Baby sleeps;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcc aBaBaa dBdbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 1101 01110101 1101 110111111 0100100111 01010101 1101 01010111 1101 11011111 111110101 011110111 1101 1011110101 1101 1010100101 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of My Baby Sleeps;
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- idea of the verse;
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