This is an analysis of the poem A Bathroom Fairytale that begins with:
Lay yourself down, when you wish to be born lay yourself down
in a grassy field meadow pasture lay yourself down and say Ma Baba Ma Baba...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccbaXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110011101 001011110110111110110 11100010100010 101001101101 1110100010011 10110011001110110 01011011111111 101010010100100101011 0111011101011 011101010010111111 01001001000101100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lay, down, yourself, such, rain, love are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase go connects the lines.
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