This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Abbreviations that begins with:
The American's a hustler, for he says so,
And surely the American must know.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbb XXcbcbcb cdXdbbbb eeeeeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001001111 1100010011 101010101011 0100011101 101010101010 10101010101 101111101010 1100010011 101010101100 11011111110 101110111010 10110010001 111010101010 01000001011 111111101010 0101010101 1101010110 1111011101 101000101010 10101010101 111110101011 10100010111 101011101010 0111010101 111000101010 10101010101 111000100010 11111010111 111011101010 1101110001 011111101010 11111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, when are repeated.
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- summary of A Ballad Of Abbreviations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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