This is an analysis of The Dead Babe by Eugene Field.
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead,
In agony I knelt and said:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Aabccb ddebbX Aabffb gghaXh Aaeiie
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11111111 01001111 111111 10110101 11110101 1101 100010101 01011101 110101 11111101 11111101 01000 11111111 01110101 011110 01010101 01010101 1101 10110001 11010101 010011 01011101 010101000 1101 11111111 01110011 010101 11110101 11100111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Anaphora
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