This is an analysis of the poem Someone Ate The Baby that begins with:
Someone ate the baby it's rather sad to say
Someone ate the baby so she won't be out to play...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabccXbddXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010101 1110101110101 1101010111010101 1101010111111010 111010010101 1110101010001 1101011111010101 1110101111010 1110101010101 1110101110101 01010101001010101 1101010111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 654
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; someone, to, ate, why, baby are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words someone, we'll are repeated.
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