Analysis of New-born Baby
Philip Brough 1941 (Leek)
Little infant, lying calmly there,
Snug in your cot beside that wooden chair
So helpless, still, serene and heavy-eyed;
Born on the flesh, God ripped from Adam’s side;
If, when your time to die, draws ever near,
You’re filled with that unknown and nameless fear,
Remember those who gave you mortal breath.
Come, join the anonymity of Death.
Scheme | AABB CCDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101010101 1011011101 1101010101 1101111101 1111111101 1111010101 0101111101 110010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 345 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
I wrote this on the birth of my first nephew
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Written on November 30, 1959
Submitted by bebefil on November 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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