This is an analysis of the poem Ballplayer that begins with:
i cop a squat on a squared-off log,
to watch you ball on the community center court....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bcba defa gbh XfXX XgXe aXX caaaXhcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,3,4,4,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 0111100100101 111111 110100110 110111101 1100101110 11101001 11010100 11011101 10101000101011 101010011110 111011 1110001 1111001010 110011111 00100101001 11111011011 01101001101110 110111 011011101101 110111111 10010011 111010010 111101011 011010010101 11111110111 0010111110 011101 010101011101 11010111110 011111 101011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Ballplayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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