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
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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Philip Brough

Retired - wrote this many years ago - never been published more…

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