This is an analysis of the poem Ball's Bluff: A Reverie that begins with:
One noonday, at my window in the town,
I saw a sight - saddest that eyes can see -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabab XccdXdc Xeeeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110001 1101101111 11010100 1001 01011010100 11010111 0101010100 1111010101 1101110001 01010101 11011 1111110101 11011101 1101010101 1111110101 11110100101 11111111 1101 1111110101 100111001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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