This is an analysis of the poem The Burglar Of Babylon that begins with:
On the fair green hills of Rio
There grows a fearful stain:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAB cdbd efgf bgbg BbDB hiei jdbd ibXX ifkX lkeB lbmX XjhX nbbb bldl kldL kljL gojX hbdg hcbc efXf bjoj ejnj XXjh dbXb XXbb neje elkl gbiB iddd egeg cnkn hcec nddd eini igjg kfhf kjkj hbnB npip Jbib Jqiq dXhg hfhX ebnb imnX aBABXBbDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 110101 0111010 111101 10101010 010101 1001010 110111 1001110 10101111 1101110 111101 11111110 110111 1111010 111101 1010101 1010100 0100100 1010101 1000001010110 110000100 110111 00110100 111110110 1111101 11101010 011101 111010010 111101 1101011 10101000 10110010 1110101 110110110 11101000 10000111 110111 11011010 1010101 101100111 1111111 100011111 100110 101110100 10010101 101111110 110110 11111111 1111101 1101110 0010101 0111010 011101 1101110 010101 11001110 111101 11110110 111111001 11101111 1110101 1001110 111111001 0101111 1110101 1101110 10111110 1101010 1100110 11111010 1110101 0100110 111001 1101011 0100111 1011010 1100111 1101010000 1011001 101001010 010101 11000010 10100001 1110110 010111 0101110 1110101 01011100 0111110 10100101 10100100 111101 11101010 0101000 0100010 1100101 1010110110 1010101 1010101 1100010 110100 11101110 1111001 10000010010 1100101 10011110 1011111 10111111 1100011 11101110 1010101 0101110 1011101 1001110 1110101 1101110 1101001 01011010 10100101 1101010 010101 10101010 010101 1101010 1111010 10111010 1001010 1001010 1101011 11111010 101111 01010100 0101110 0101011 011010010 011011110 110101 10111110 111011 11101010 11101101 1000001110 11100101 1101010 1101001 101010110 110000011 11010010 1101111 01100010 1010101 00110100 101001 101010010 10101 11110010 1101011 11110010 10000011 11110010 010101 1011110 101101 10110010 101010110 01001010 1010011 110010010 1111101 11010010 111111100 01001010 11101101 1110110 100101 100000010010 1100101 1111101100 101100000 1011010 110101 0111010 111101 1010101 10100100 0100100 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 47
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 189
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, hill, of, he, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, the, were are repeated.
The author used the same words on, they, he, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Burglar Of Babylon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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