This is an analysis of the poem To A Baby Found Paddling Near The Thames that begins with:

Hail! O Baby of the May
In the bubbling river-bed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abAbcXcddcdcbbeeXXfcfccfcbfbaagdgdbabaaadgddgXXaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001 00100101 1010101 0010101 10001101 10101010 0110101 11101010 11111010 1100101 100101010 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110111 01101011 10100110 0010111 1010101 1010101 1100101 1011011 1011101 1010111 10010101 1010001 0011001 1110101 11100101 1010001 1110101 1010011 1010001 1010101 1110010 1000101 1110101 1010001 0110111 0111111 1110101 1011101 1110111 0010001 10101010 11111110 1010101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1481
  • Average number of words per stanza: 276
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.

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