This is an analysis of the poem The Bard Of Furthest Out that begins with:
He longed to be a Back-Blocks Bard,
And fame he wished to win—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdc dbdbXeXe fgfgeheh egegijij XdXdikik klkliiii ememdXdl ededcfcf fefeeaea afXfeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000111 111101 11111101 110100 11011000 11101 11111101 011111 01011001 110001 11010101 011101 11110101 110001 11111101 110001 11110111 110011 01011101 1100111 11010101 110101 10110001 111101 110001001 010111 11110111 110101 11011101 111111 10010101 1110111 11111111 111110 01010100 100111 110011101 1100110 11010111 1101010 0101011010 1110001 110111010 1010111 11111101 1111001 01000101 010101 01011101 010001 01010101 110011 01010111 010101 11010111 010001 11111111 110110 11111111 111111 11110101 110101 110000111 111101 10010111 111101 11010101 111101 11111111 011101 11110111 110101 11010100 110111 01010100 010111 11011111 10011100 11110101 011100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he, it, you, fire, must, and, as, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, you, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 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 fire is repeated).
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