This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of His Books that begins with:
Here stand my books, line upon line
They reach the roof, and row by row,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaXA ababbabA ababXabA X aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 11011111 11010101 11101111 11110101 110101010 11010111 010111110 11000101 01010111 10011101 11010101 11011101 010111010 11111101 010111110 11010101 01010101 1101011 110110001 11110111 010100110 11010111 010111110 10 11110111 110100110 11011110 110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, old, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word in at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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