This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Ducks that begins with:
The railway rattled and roared and swung
With jolting and bumping trucks. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaccbcdccXXd eXeeccb dcddffc ebeeffb fXffggX faffcca eheecch iaiijja jdjjffd ibiikkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101111 0101101 011010111 00101101001 0011100101 0100100101 10101101101 10011110101 0110110111 10101101101 1010110101 00101111111 111101111 1110110111 1110110101 111110101 10101101001 111100111 1110101111 111100101 110101111 10111110111 010111101 111010111 110011101 011011110101 110001101 1101001011 10000101111 1011110111 110100101 1011011110 110111111 110101101 011111111 10110111101 011101001 101111101 100110111 1111000101 110100101 10110101010 110101111 10111011001 010111001 0101101101 1110111101 10100111 1101100101 1011101001 110100101 11110101 11011110101 1110100111 1100100101 010100111 1010110101 11111001001 1111100101 1101000101 1110110101 11010110101 11110011 1010111101 1010111101 0010110101 1010101101 110110001011 1011110101 110011101 110100111 100100111 110101101 1111101001 100100111 100010101 10111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 77
- 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; and, of, you, to, or, nine, tap, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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