This is an analysis of the poem To-Night He Is Welcoming Baby that begins with:

The baby is dead, but its mother's
Sweet eyes with a radiance shine ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab ab XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011010 11001001 11100101110 11011011 1111101110 01101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of To-Night He Is Welcoming Baby;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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