This is an analysis of the poem Babyhood that begins with:
Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger:
Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB cdcd efef Xgag hghgXABAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111110 110101111101 10101011111010 10010100101 11010111010 11010110101 11101010001010 1110101010101 100110101010 100100110101 10111010100110 0010100010101 100111101010 10101100101 10101010100010 1010101010101 1010101101010 00101100101 1010100100010 0110101010101 11101111110 110101111101 10101011111010 10010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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