This is an analysis of the poem Baloo that begins with:
BALOO, my sweet baby—the blossom!
I dandle't till weary, and sigh,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded cbcb fgfgXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110010 11011011 010110110 01001001 011011110 11101001 110011110 11101011 111110010 11111101 110010010 01001101 111110110 01011011 111110110 11101011 111011111 01011111 010111111 01011001 101110010 11101101 011110010 01101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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- summary of Baloo;
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- idea of the verse;
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