This is an analysis of the poem The Baby's Vengeance that begins with:
Weary at heart and extremely ill
Was PALEY VOLLAIRE of Bromptonville,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb bbcc bbcc dXee cXbX ffaX gXgX hhfX eeii XXaX a jkjkkk hlhlll mkmkll dXdXnn dhdhkk mlmlll fmfmgg bbbbkX aaii bbbb iXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 110100100 0010100101 100101101 101011101 110101111 1100100111 110010101 111100111 100100101 1101110101 1100100101 101101101 11111011010 1100100111 101100101 1111001101 011100110 11011011001 0101110100 0100100111 110101101 11101001011 011111100100 100010101 11001001110 10101000101101 1111111010 111111101 101011101001 110111111 10100101010 11100101 010100111 010100111 0101100111 100111110 11111001010 1001011010100 1111010110 01001 10111010001 11010110010 0111011101 10010101110 011101001010 11111100110 10101101101 110101010100 0111010101 011101000100 110001001010 00010001010 10101111111 01110101010 0111010111 11011101010 01010011010 110111101110 10101110001 10110101010 1000111101 11110101010 01010101010 11110110010 10101001111 110011110110 1011010101 110111010110 10110101010 110001010010 11100100111 11010101010 1100010101 11010011010 110010111010 01110011010 10100011101 11010100110 1101011111 00010111110 111101100111 010101010111 10111011101 11111011010 1101111101 11011111010 11110001010 110111111000 100110101 1100100101 110100111 0101100111 101001001 1100111101 1110110101 0100110011 110100111 1101001010 111100111 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, he, her, my, i, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines boy is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mother at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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