This is an analysis of the poem Baseball And Writing that begins with:

Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting
and baseball is like writing....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccdebfghh iifaadadXXXf jjaXgiXhbdhh iiXkkjliXfbXh jjhggdcifXff XaXeeejdfgff jXldXliXlXll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,13,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000000010 1110110 11101010 1001 11101 1010010 0100010 10101010 10011010 10100011 011001 101000001 001010101010 0101010 10101101010 1010001 01011 1111010 101110 11101001 11011000 101010010 1001011100 11010100 111010111010 1101010 0101110101 101010 10010 1010100 10101010 10010101001 10111110 11110010111 110010100 10011111 011010010100 11101010 1011000110 1101 0100101 10111 1101011 1101101 111101010 11011100 101001010 011000111 10100011 11010010011 11010001 110110111 1010 011010 1000101 111111110 11101010 1010000010 110101000 011010 101101100 111111111010 1010010 1011111100 1111 1111 0100011 10101011 010111001000 01001100 111001011101 1011100 10110100 11010101010 10001010 01111011 1010 111010 1011101 0110101 111010111 10010111 010001100 110010 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, milk are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, it are repeated).

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