Analysis of A Baby's Cradle With No Baby In It
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A baby's cradle with no baby in it,
A baby's grave where autumn leaves drop sere;
The sweet soul gathered home to Paradise,
The body waiting here.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111001 0101110111 011101110 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 154 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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