Poem Analysis of First Child ... Second Child by Ogden Nash for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem First Child ... Second Child that begins with:

FIRST
Be it a girl, or one of the boys,...

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Rhyme scheme: a bXcXddeeccaabbaaaaaaffggaacc X cchh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,28,1,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 000111001 001011001000 001001101010 1100001000 001101001010 11111001010 1010010100 10010101100 1010101101 101001101011 100101101 01110111 1010011001 1111101011 101001001 10110111 0101110111 1011100111 101110101 1010011001 10101101010 01001001010 0100101010 100100100 0100100101 010101101 110101101 1010011101 10 010101111 10100101 000111001 11100101101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
Average number of words per stanza: 57
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
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; it, eyes, child are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, when are repeated.

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First Child ... Second Child by Ogden Nash: poem analysis

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