This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Matterhorn that begins with:
By Casey's Occidental Rooms, when the sun is getting low,
The chattering crowds of Chinatown along the pavements go,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb bbcc ddeX eeXfXX aafXbb bbgg hhaaXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,6,6,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101011010101 010010101010101 111101001010101 11011011010111 110110101010101 11111111110111 01010101010101 01010101011110 11010111010101 11110101101010 011101011101010 01110111011111 11000111111001 10110111111101 11110001110001 11110101011111 10010101110 100 1 11111111111111 00110111011101 01110 100 110111 0111111111111 01010111101101 01011111011111 11011111111101 101000011111011 11010101110101 01000101110101 110010111110111 11000100010101 11010101010111 001011101111111 11111111110111 10010111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, that, ship, she, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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