This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of A Special Edition that begins with:
He comes; I hear him up the street--
Bird of ill omen, flapping wide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbbbB ababbbbB ababbbbbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 10110101 01000101 01110100 01011101 10010101 11010001 01010011 01000101 01010101 11010101 10010101 01010001 11010101 11011101 01010011 111100101 11011101 01010001 10000101 11010111 11010101 11010011 01010011 11111101 11111101 00010011 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; end is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word end at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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