Analysis of Why Did Baby Die?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Why did baby die,
Making Father sigh,
Mother cry?
Flowers, that bloom to die,
Make no reply
Of ‘why?’
But bow and die.
Scheme | AAAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
Metre | 11101 10101 101 101111 1101 11 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 130 |
Words | 26 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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