This is an analysis of the poem The Convicts' Ball that begins with:
San Quentin was brilliant. Within the halls
Of the noble pile with the frowning walls... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXfXeeffggeeXXhhcXiiiijjaaXfXhhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100101 0010100101 111010101 00100100101 1010110011 0010100111 11001001001 0110100101 1101111111 10101110101 1110111101 10101100010 1001001011 1001010110 10001001001 1011011001 1001011001 01100101 1001001001 01011011001 01001001001 10100100111 100111011 1100110101 0100100101 11001001001 1011001001 0110100101 11011001001 10111101001 11111001001 01001011001 1010011101 01010001001 101101101 01101011001 11001011011 11111101011 10100101001 0101110101 1101100101 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 899
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, his, ', ball, and, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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