This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of The Gamefish that begins with:
WHERE the puddle is shallow, the weakfish stay
To drift along with the current's flow ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbX aXab bcbX abab bcbX bcbX
- 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: 10100100101 010100101 010110111 0010101111 0010100111 110110111 1011110101 100100110 1010100101 11010101 10100111 110111101 0011111101 1111100111 1011100101 100100110 1011100101 1100100101 011011111 101110111 110101101 1110110111 0011110111 100100110 100100101 011100101 110110111 100100110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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