This is an analysis of the poem Ballade [i Die Of Thirst Beside The Fountain] that begins with:
I die of thirst beside the fountain
I'm hot as fire, I'm shaking tooth on tooth ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdefebG afcdhXijeG hdddklXakGXlijaG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101010 01110010111 01110000101 0101010001 10101110101 110111001 11101100 01011100101 0100111111 101011101 01010110010 1100110100 11010100 100101100 1110101010 11111011010 101001010 011110010 1011010011111 101011101 110111110 0010111101 1110111 111110011 010111111 0110011 010111111 111011111 10101011101 101011101 1001101101 110111111110 01001110100 11010111101 101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; i'm, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i'm, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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