This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Pikeville that begins with:
Down in Southern Arizona where the Gila monster thrives,
And the 'Mescalero,' gifted with a hundred thousand lives,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccee bb ffggffee ffcc ddhheeiiddiiffggffjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,2,8,4,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 101000100010101 10010010100110101 001010101110101 101010100010101 01010100010101 101010100010101 001000101010001 101001101110001 110011101010111 1010001001010101 111000101010101 101110101010001 111000111110101 01111101010101 1110101000100101 11010101011101 111010101010001 1010101010010101 101010100010111 101010101110101 101110110100101 101010101010111 001010101010001 111010101110101 101110101011101 101010101111101 10100100011111001 100010101011101 1011101010010001 01010100010111 01010100110101 111000101010111 10011100101100001 0101010110011 001010111110101 101001101010101 10101010010101 101000101110001 101010111010001 101010101010101 1010100010010001 1001011100110101 011010101010101 101010101010101 0010101010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, by are repeated.
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