Analysis of My Baby Has A Mottled Fist
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
My baby has a mottled fist,
My baby has a neck in creases;
My baby kisses and is kissed,
For he's the very thing for kisses.
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 110101010 11010011 110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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