This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Calliope that begins with:
By the far Samoan shore,
Where the league-long rollers pour ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddedde ccfggf ddfbXf hhgbbg bbbhhb hhebbe ddXeea hhbXgb ggbeeX cceaae iidaad hhdjjX ggbhhbXajdaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 101000101010101 1010111 0010101 01110111110101 1010101 0010101 11011101010001 111101 1011101 11010101010101 1010111 1110101 11010101010101 010101 10010101 11010101011101 0011101 10110101 1110101001010101 1110101 100101110 111011101010101 1011101 1110101 1010111010101001 1010101 1011101 101011101110101 1010111 1010101 01010101010001 1010001 1010101 101011101011101 0011111 1010111 11110101010111 1011111 0011010 111010101011001 1111101 1011101 1010111000101010 1110111 1111111 111110100010101 1011111 1011111 101010101011101 1011111 0010101 1010111010100101 1111101 10110101 101010101110001 1010101 1110101 1011101011101010 1010101 0010101 001110101010001 1010101 0010101 1010001011100011 0011101 1011101 111010100011001 0010101 1110101 10010101001011111 10011101 1010101 101111101011101 101001010 01101110 1010101011100010 1011111 1110101 101011100010001 1010101 0010111 1110001011100001 110101 110110 11010101110101 010101 010101 01110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, they, and, her, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, and, from, for are repeated.
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- summary of The Ballad Of The Calliope;
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