Analysis of To Baby
Kate Greenaway 1846 – 1901
OH, what shall my blue eyes go see?
Shall it be pretty Quack-Quack to-day?
Or the Peacock upon the Yew Tree?
Or the dear little white Lambs at play?
Say Baby.
For Baby is such a young Petsy,
And Baby is such a sweet Dear.
And Baby is growing quite old now–
She's just getting on for a year.
| Scheme | ABABAACDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 11111111 111101111 10101011 101101111 110 11011011 01011011 010110111 11101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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