This is an analysis of the poem Baby that begins with:
Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aa dd ee ff aa ee ee bbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110101 100101001 10111111 10011111 1101001011 100101010 10111101 110101111 111101111 011101111 111110111 11101011011 11110101 110111101 10110101 11101101 10111111 110100111 110111101 001110101 101111001 110111111 110110111 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same words where, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Baby;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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