Analysis of The Baby's Laugh
She brought flowers to the garden,
water to the pond
Fresh stripes to line the zebra’s back,
and melody to song
A background to the rising sun,
brush strokes to the paint
New breath to hold the baby’s laugh
—and love to cure the hate
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
Scheme | AXXX AXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 10101 11110101 010011 0110101 11101 1111011 011101 110010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 275 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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