This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Thoughtless Waiter that begins with:
I saw him lying cold and dead
Who yesterday was whole. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acdc XXXd Xebe eXaX XaXX afef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 110111 100101010101 111101 1010000111 1011011 10011101 011111 101001101 101011 11010111 110101 11101101 110101 1010100100 100100 11011101 110100 111011101 110111 1001010101 0110111 11100110101 11111110 11010001 010101 101111001 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words but, the 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).
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