Analysis of The Baby
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The baby new to earth and sky
Has never until now
Unto himself the question put
Or asked us if the cow
Is higher in the mental scale
Than men like me and you,
Or if the cow refrains from food
Till she finds work to do.
'The baby new to earth and sky,'
As Tennyson has written,
Just goes ahead and sucks a teat
Like to-day's great men in Britain.
| Scheme | Abxb xcxc Adxd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01011101 110011 10010101 111101 11000101 111101 11010111 111111 01011101 1100110 11010101 11111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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