This is an analysis of the poem The Poet And The Baby that begins with:
How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,--
How's he going to weave the dim, poetic spell,--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba Xcddc eeffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10101010111 111001010101 1010101 0011101 10111110111 101010100101 11110110101 1011101 110100 111101010001 10101010111 101011101001 1010011 1010101 11101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how's is repeated.
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- summary of The Poet And The Baby;
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- idea of the verse;
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