This is an analysis of the poem To A New-Born Baby Girl that begins with:
And did thy sapphire shallop slip
Its moorings suddenly, to dip...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bXccXXddee eeffggeebbffcccchhbbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100101 01010001 100101001 01011100 11000110 01010100 01111101 11010100 11010111 01010111 10111101 01010101 10010101 11011101 11111101 11000110 11010111 01010011 01110101 01011101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11010111 01110111 11010111 01010001 11010101 11011100 010010100 110110101 11011101 11010101 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her is repeated.
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