Analysis of The New-born Baby's Song
Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)
When I was twenty inches long,
I could not hear the thrush's song;
The radiance of the morning skies
Was most displeasing to my eyes.
For loving looks, caressing words,
I cared no more than sun or birds;
But I could bite my mother's breast,
And that made up for all the rest.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 1111011 010010101 111111 11010101 11111111 11111101 01111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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