This is an analysis of the poem Baby Villon that begins with:
He tells me in Bangkok he’s robbed
Because he’s white; in London because he’s black; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cada dedd afaf aeXd XXXX cggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 01110100111 01010101010 10111111111 1111011010 01111010001 110110001110 001111001 11101111010 011001011001 0110011110 010010010010 0100010011011 100101101 1111101101 111111111 111110111 0110111011 111110010 011011010010 10010101011 111111111 1101011110 111111 11010111110 101101110 10101010110 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, in, s, of, his, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Baby Villon;
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