This is an analysis of the poem A Poet To His Baby Son that begins with:
Tiny bit of humanity,
Blessed with your mother’s face, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cXdecd XdXfggXbd hdeXihfaheXXiXhbhc dcbheXhid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,9,18,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100 101101 1101101 11101101 011111111100111 100010110111 11001 1010001101 10010101110010010 111111 11010101 111011 1111111 01110010 101010111010110 111010101 1100101001 0110010 11011011001 1000111010 1000100111 001101 1011010 11010000101 10100000101 1001010 10111010010 1001001110011 11101110 1110010 01011 11100101 010101110 110101010 100100010111 101001001101 110011111010 111101101 110110101 1001110100 11001100 1001001011 1100111 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your, with, s, and, or, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mind is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word poet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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