Analysis of The Poet And The Baby
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
How's a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,--
How's he going to weave the dim, poetic spell,--
When a-toddling on the floor
Is the muse he must adore,
And this muse he loves, not wisely, but too well?
Now, to write a sonnet, every one allows,
One must always be as quiet as a mouse;
But to write one seems to me
Quite superfluous to be,
When you 've got a little sonnet in the house.
Just a dainty little poem, true and fine,
That is full of love and life in every line,
Earnest, delicate, and sweet,
Altogether so complete
That I wonder what's the use of writing mine.
Scheme | AABBA XCDDC EEFFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111010111 111011010101 1010101 1011101 01111110111 111010100101 1111110101 1111111 11011 111101010001 10101010101 111110101001 1010001 010101 11101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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