This is an analysis of the poem Casey At The Bat that begins with:
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccX ddcc eeff eecc ggcc cchh iiff iiff jjkX Xfjj cckkXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110101010111 01110101110101 11110111110001 01110101010001 01011101010101 101110101000101 11110101110111 11110101010101 11010101010101 101010101010101 101110101110101 111110101010001 11110100010001 1101101010101 11011101111101 11101110110101 10110111110101 0101010010001 01010101010101 11010101010001 111010101110001 111010101011101 110100011101001 11000111110101 11010111110101 11010101110101 11010101010001 01010101011101 11010101110101 11010100010011 1101010010101 1111011011101101 001010101110101 101000111011101 111011011011101 1010101111110101 001010100110101 1101010110111 11000101110111 1101010101101111 1110100101101011 111010101010011 11011111110101 111110101111101 01110101011101 11010100010101 11010101111101 11010101010101 11100101010101 0101011111111 1111110110101 110110101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, in, casey's, his, he, they, now, somewhere are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and, it, there, he are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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