This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Little Black Hound that begins with:
Who knocks at the Geraldine's door to-night
In the black storm and the rain?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdadefaXebXbaecXacfX bghXAfcXcbaXcXbXafXXcagaAbdbcbXX IajabbjbbfjXXchcIbXbifjfebcbcece bacafgbghfhfaekXecccXfcXcbhbabjbXaakaiajacchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,32,45,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101000101 0011101 0010110101 101001001 111111001 01100011 111111001 01000011 111111101 111000 111100101 10111101 111100101 1111111 111101010 1100101 1111101001 1101101 1110100101 1101001 0001100111 1100111 100100111 10111100 111100111 111010001 111100101 0101011 1100111001 1100111 1100110111 0101100 111111011 1010111 111110111 0010111 00011101011 11111010 111111001 11111100 0001110111 1100111 1010001011 1011100 101000111 1110111 111100101 1010101 1100111001 10110111 101111101 10101111 1100101111 10101111 1011111101 10101111 0001100110 1111001 110100101 10100101 100111110 1111001 1111100101 11100101 110111110 1100111 1111111101 1101101 1100101111 10001101 100100101 10100101 0001100110 1101101 110100101 1100111 1101100110 1011101 111100101 111111 0001100111 0101110 111101001 1100111 1111101011 1111111 1011101101 1010101 111100111 1111111 011101011 0111101 1111110111 1111010 11110100111 0100101 1010110101 1110101 11110100101 11110101 11111010001 1111101 111111011 11111100 101100111 1101111 11101001011 1111001 10001101011 1100101 111100101 0010111 1101101011 1011101 110110101 0100101 1011110111 1011101 1111110110 1011110 111110110 011101 111010111 0011101 101100110 1011001 1100100101 10101111 110110111 1011111 111100101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 962
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, in, right, and, i, of, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who, quickly are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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