Analysis of "baby"



Last night I told you of my fate,
my conclusions that I can not face,
except for the most intimate thoughts,
of shame that rang through. I am lost.

Knowing what you see I can be,
myself without the battle baby,
cried myself to sleep under the tears,
knowing you had too with my fear.

That I was right. I'm the devil,
it's a little known fact. I'm not dead.
I carry that around with my dull-drums,
that I can't be happy, seldom.

Although, I have made a lifetime,
of digging my own grave, now I climb,
scratch and crawl to believe baby,
that I can be with my Lady.


Scheme XXXX AAXX XXXX BBAA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 11111111 101011111 011011001 11111111 10111111 10101010 11111001 10111111 11111010 101011111 1101011111 11111010 111101 110111111 10110110 11111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 547
Words 110
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Steven Louis Chapman

Steven was adopted, his biological father was an English professor who had an affair with a student. Writing poetry is an outlet for his expression of love. A hopeless romantic in search of his soul mate. (it changes from now and then) He hopes to capture the girl of his dreams through poetry. Visit my blog at http://thedailypoetrss.blogspot.com/ for the latest up to date poems. more…

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