This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Bombay that begins with:
I had promised you a poem before I died
Diamonds storming out of the blackness of a piano...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcccd cXeX bcceda eXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100111 10101001000010 1111111111 0101100100110 1100110010101 11111011001 0101101001101001 011101101011 111010011001 0100010010101 0100010010111 01001010 111010110 11101000100 11101010100 1011010101011 111111111 1011001010 11101110 111111 11011010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, your, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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