This is an analysis of the poem The Ballet Of The Fifth Year that begins with:
Where the sea gulls sleep or indeed where they fly
Is a place of different traffic. Although I...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXaccXXddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101111 001010010111 01001011110111 11010111001 001101111110 111101111100 1111000100101 1001011001010 0111110010 0111100110 11101100100 10110100001 0111010110001 1110010010101 00101110011 100101110101 1111011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, old are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
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