This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait that begins with:
The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xaca dcbd bbeb ebeb dfdf gbgg bgeg ggeg eaea efhf ifhf fjfg jgke keke dgdg dgdg egeg clcl gmgm idid noXo iepe edgd gfgg adjd hghd gjdj qoao dbdb eaea nXnr nana egeg eaga ieie eaea lflf iiii igqg gqqg dgdg gfef gdig gggg gphc Xggg hgig ndnh lknk dgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01101101 10011011 101011111 0101101011 101001000 10010111 101101001 111101001 10001001 101000101 111111011 10101 11011111 11000101 011001101 10111001 101111001 01001101101 001111101 001111001 111110011 0101001101 10100101 101001 01010110 1111001 111001010 00101001 11011001 11000101 11111101 00101001 110110110 01111001 1001010 100110 10101101 10100111 01011011 01101001 11011101 01011101 101111101 110110101 101110001 10110001 0111001 10001 10011111 100111101 1011010101 101011001 111100101 1101110011 111100101 1101101101 1100111001 1100101001 1100100101 11111 01001101 10101001 1100101 010011101 011001001 0100101 101001111001 101010111 110100111 0110100111 101111101 110001 100100101 10010001 11010101 110011 11111111 11010101 0101100001 0101000101 0111001001 11011101 01110111 100101 100110010 10110001 1001010 01011101 111111101 101010001 1101010100 1001001001 0111011111 1101001101 10001001 101011011 101110011 11010010001 1011110111 1101001 01110111 01010011 1100101 11111010 1001011011 011100101 100100101 11111101 10101001 1110101 11101101 1101010111 1001110 1001001 11001101 011100101 10111001 10100101 10100101 101001 11011010101 011110101 10101101 011010101 110110100010 110110101 1011101010 101110101 0110001110 01101110101 110111010 101100001 1110111 101110101 01101111 101111 1110101 100101000101 01110100 11000100111 100101001 1001010010 10011101 001000010 1110111 11101111 0101001001 1011101 10110111 10010101 01001111 101110101 10100101 1111001 01010010 101001101 11101100 1110101 11010010 100010001 10010111 11111101 11010101 0101001 01110101 110100101 01010001 011100 011101101 1111001101 111110111 101000101 11011011 111101011 11101011 101001011 10111101 01011101 1110101 010110111 1110101 10101010 010110101 011100101 0111011010 010111011 10100010100 1010111 111001010 1100011 11110010110 010101001 1101011010 101101011 101101101110 10110101 100101001 110011101 1010010010 0100110101 1111001 10010100 10111101 0100010 10101001101 10010111 0100100111 101010110 1111001 0010101101 1000100101 0101101001 0101101101 001011101 1101001001 001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 54
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 217
- 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; to, in, every, till, and, of, out, down, land are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, a, till, oh, over, the, out, with, and are repeated.
The author used the same word always at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase deep connects the lines.
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