This is an analysis of the poem The Black Monkey that begins with:
My Babbles has a nasty knack
Of keeping monkeys on her back.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXeee bbffcc ggbbXX eehhXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 01111111 11011101 00010111 11010101 11110111 01110101 1110101110 11011101 11110001 11010001 11010101 11010101 11010001 01011101 11010001 00011011 10011111 10010101 11010101 11110111 10010111 1001110100 11010111 10111101 10111101 11010101 100100110 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, never, oh are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Black Monkey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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