This is an analysis of the poem Little Brown Baby that begins with:
Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes,
Come to yo' pappy an' set on his knee....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcaXXAXaXXdXd XXdXXcXc XbXbXaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 1011011101 1101011011 1111111011 1111110011 1101011101 1101111111 1011011101 101101101 11010111010 1001011011 1001011011 1011111101 1011011011 10111110101 1011111010 1111001001 1111001011 1111001101 1111010111 1011011001 1011111101 1011011111 1011101001 1111111111 1111011111 1111111001 1101011111 1011011011 11110111101 11111010111 101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words look, whah, wisht are repeated.
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- summary of Little Brown Baby;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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