This is an analysis of the poem The Seventh Inning that begins with:
1. Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole
occupation of the aging boy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdcdcd bccefedgh ciajhklfX mlnlXifce jlllnbobl glgghcfjX alglaigXi ofagchgdg nhcmnkfjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100101 101000101 100111110 100101011 010011110 100110010 101101010 011110101 001011110 1001011111 010011111 010111111 011110010 010111101 010111010 011010010 101000010 010001010 1100111001 101001110 111001100 0101010000 010011001 111010011 100111101 010011101 010100101 1010010001 011100110 011111101 110000101 100010111 101010100 101110100 101101001 010011111 1101101010 111111011 101010011 001101011 111011001 101011101 101101000 111010011 011010001 1111110011 110110001 101010111 110011111 100101010 110100101 011110110 010110110 111101010 1011001011 011011110 010011110 101010101 101001011 101000100 100101010 011111101 100011110 1010011101 110010001 010010101 0111010001 111011101 111011100 111111101 111010110 010110010 1101010011 111010010 110111110 011011100 111011101 011001001 101001100 011101010 010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; water, her, as, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase perhaps connects the lines.
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- summary of The Seventh Inning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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