Analysis of Where do babies come from
Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)
Where do babies come from mommy?
Maybe they are manufatured in a factory
An aeroplane brought Shanny
She was so small and tiny
From the hospital came Skinny
They seemed to carry a towel empty
Mommy, just be frank with me
Where do babies come from?
I never did hear the landing of a plane
Never did I see a pilot in the lane
Yet I saw Shanny without a neck to crane.
Skinny was quite humane
We had all that to ascertain
So the hospital story we couldn't entertain.
Mommy, just be frank with me
Where do babies come from?
One thing for sure, mommy
All with new babies had a big tummy
Yet they came as flat as a mummy
The stomachs weren't stuffed like a dummy
It was not even trampled by an army
Or later smeared in balmy
Mommy, just be frank with me
Where do babies come from?
Scheme | aabaaaAC bbbbbbAC aaaaaaAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1011100100 1111 1111010 1010110 1111001010 1011111 111011 11011010101 10111010001 1111010111 101101 1111101 10101011001 1011111 111011 111110 1111010110 111111010 0101011010 11110101110 1101010 1011111 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
This is a child's innocent question.
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