This is an analysis of the poem Babylon Is Fallen! that begins with:
Don't you see de black clouds
Risin' ober yonder,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXa XcbcDDb XXadXa bXdXXd eXfXdf XXeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 101010 101011101 101010 101010 101111101 1111 11001 11111101 11111 101010 101010 1110010101 111010 1000100 110110101 110010 11010 101011101 110011 111010 101110101 101110 111110 101010101 11010 001010 101111101 101010 110010 111110101 1000010 100010 111110101 111010 111010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words babylon, so are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fallen is repeated).
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