This is an analysis of the poem 'Monstre' Balloon that begins with:
Oh! the balloon, the great balloon!
It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaXaaaaX aaaaaXaXaXX XbbbbbbbbbX ccccccccccXcX dddddddX eeeXee ffXfX bbbbbbXbbbbXXbbXXb Xddddd fffffffff aXaaaaaaaaXa aaaaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,13,8,6,5,18,6,9,12,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010101 011111111 110011111001 0101001100 1101101111 1101101010 011001101001 011101011001 11011111011 11101001101 111001001010 111011111101 111010110001 11011001110 11100111111 111111001001 11011101110 011001111011 101001001010 111011011101 101001011000 111101111001 11101101001 11011101101 01001001011 010010010001 01011011111 110101011111 11111011101 111011101101 101011001001 01011111101 11101111111 11101111101 101001111101 101011101011 110101101001 111101101111 101011011001 1101011001 101010011011 11001001011 101001011001 101111001100 111011101001 1110010011010 1111111111 01010111101 10100100101 101101111011 101001111011 101101011001 01101011101 101001011011 1110111101 001011111101 100001001011 111011011001 1010011001011 111101111001 1111111001 1111111111 00111011110 111110111001 11011111010 1010111101 101001001101 101011001101 111001011011 101001011001 111001011011 0100010001110 10100110011111 111111011001 101011101101 111001001011 11010001011 111010110110 111001101011 001101111001 101111011011 101001001100 101011001001 11101101001 11001101001 1001001001001 111101101001 111011011101 10101001011 11101111001 111111111001 111001011011 11011011101 11111101001 111011101101 11101101001 01101011011 001111011011 11101101001 01101011110 0011110111001 001011011101 11101000101 001011011001 1010111110001 101011001001 11111001101 011101001001 11001011100 11001011001 111101001001 101001101001 11101101111 101101001101 0101101100 01111111010 011011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, been, my, come, your, they, how, be, to, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, and, a, how, mr, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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