This is an analysis of the poem Following A Bouncing Ball that begins with:
Why haven't I contacted you at all?
My priorities have completely changed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcdabca dXefeXfXaed AeXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110111 1010010101 1100101010 001110011 00101000101 0100111111 11111 0111001 1111 110010110 0111 111110100 110101 0111 1011011001 1010111010 10100111 110101 1111 1101110111 11111011 110011111 1 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; over, and are repeated.
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