Analysis of We've lost the baby
We've lost the baby or so we thought
rushing back from holiday all distraught.
Anxiously waiting with concern as we pray.
'It's alright', we heard the doctor say.
Early in the morning making great haste
on my bike I rode at an very fast pace.
'I hope I'm in time', I thought as onward I sped.
My goal was to make it your hospital bed.
You'd been born half an hour when I got there
you looked so small with your dark black hair.
Heather was the name that we gave to you
born on the 6th Nov.1970 you were overdue.
Like some belated firework lighting the sky
you exploded into our world with a cry.
As a rocket our eyes to the heavens lift
'Praise You Lord', we said for such a gift.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 110101111 101110101 10010101111 11110101 1000101011 11111111011 111011111011 1111111101 11111101111 111111111 1010111111 11011110101 1101011001 101001101101 101010110101 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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