This is an analysis of A Poet To His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson.
Tiny bit of humanity,
Blessed with your mother’s face,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc cXdecd XdXfggXbd hdeXihfaheXXiXhbhc dcbheXhid
- Stanza lengths: 3,6,9,18,9,
- Metre: 10100100 101101 1101101 11101101 011111111100111 100010110111 11001 1010001101 10010101110010010 111111 11010101 111011 1111111 01110010 101010111010110 111010101 1100101001 0110010 11011011001 1000111010 1000100111 001101 1011010 11010000101 10100000101 1001010 10111010010 1001001110011 11101110 1110010 01011 11100101 010101110 110101010 100100010111 101001001101 110011111010 111101101 110110101 1001110100 11001100 1001001011 1100111 100010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
your, with, s, and, or, of, it
Anaphora
or
Epiphora
mind
