This is an analysis of the poem The History Of Jazz that begins with:
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The leaves of blue came drifting down....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcXccdefceaXgcXbhhXdihcgXdcXXjgfb cbbXahaXcbjh X gibXccck c gk X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,12,1,8,1,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01011101 0010101100110101 011010100010000101 01011101110101101 1100101110001101 0101011001011001 01110101101101010 1101011001000101 0101110111011001011 1101001001001110001 11010100111101100011 10110011010110101 111101101100000100101100 101010001010101111010 0101101001001010101 010010100011011101 101100110111101111001 010111001101011000110110 1011000100100110101001101 10111001011011010110 111111011101010 111001010101011 10111001101111111111100 1100101010110111111011 1101001110101101010001011 0010110110011101 11010110101011010000100 111110110011011001 1101001101010111 101111110011111111011 1100011101100110101 0010010111101101 00101010111011101010 1111101100110111101 1111010101101 10110111010011001 1101110101001 101100111111101111100 011100010101001 1110101011101001 0101111100111 00100010011101110 010110101111110 1110011111000111101 01101011100111 101111101 1 1110011 11101001000011 111010101010101111101 0111110100100101100 1001010010101 1110110101011101 11101111010010 1101001011 01011111101010100101110111 001011101111111011 110011010101111110011 10001000101001011011001110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, madeleine, reierbacher, played, in, she, of, and, they, that, saw, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, madeleine, in are repeated.
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- summary of The History Of Jazz;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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