This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet : To A Balloon Laden With Knowledge that begins with:
Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even
Silently takest thine aethereal way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdefefaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11011101010 1001011001 1001010111 100010111010 01010110111 11010000101 111000101 01110100101 01010000111 0111010101 1101010111 0100010001 01110010101 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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