This is an analysis of The Infanticide by Madison Julius Cawein.
She took her babe, the child of shame and sin,
And wrapped it warmly in her shawl and went…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010111 1101000111 01011101001 0101010101 0101111100 1111111101 100110101110 1101011101 0111010111 0101111101 11110111111 0110010101 1101110101 1111010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, she
