This is an analysis of the poem Bat that begins with:
At evening, sitting on this terrace,
When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dd efe dfg cXXg hX c difjfh cak ael ilX XiX b a ik ciaXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,3,4,2,1,6,3,3,3,3,1,1,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 1010010110010100110 01101010101 10101001000101010 11010 110010001100 011100111001 0101000110 11111110 0101101 100101110011010 01011010100100110 11101 010100101001001 010010 111 110110110 10 11110 110011 0101010101001 111010101 10101111101 1101 1010 1 01011 10100100101101 101100 101 11101010011 1011101 1010 1000 110111001001 10111011110010010010 1110010 1 1011011111101 11000111 1011111001011 110011 1 111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, swallows are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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