This is an analysis of the poem The Whistle: A Ballad that begins with:
I SING of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth,
I sing of a Whistle, the pride of the North.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XcXX cccc Xdee ffff gghh ccii hhdX ffXf ddjj eeii eekk Xdii kkff llii ffkk mmjj nneX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001001001 11001001001 11001010101 11001011011 1101101010 01001011001 110110010110 1100111111100 11011111001 11001011001 01011011001 11101011001 11001001101 011010100001 11011111101 110010101011 110010001011 11001111001 11101011001 01001001101 11001001101 10011010111 11010011011 11011011011 10001001111 010010001101 11111001001 11101011101 10010010010001 1001010110001 11001001101 1100101101100 11001011101 111101101101 1101010010010 11101011111 001010011001 11011001011 111111011101 101111001101 01101001001 11101001001 01101011011 11111001010 010101001011 110110010101 001011011011 101101001101 110110110110 11011011001 11101011101 11001011011 11001111101 11011001001 110011001001 11101111100 11010011011 11001101011 01101001001 11011001101 01011011001 11101111001 11101011001 11011011101 11011101001 100011101011 10111001001 11101111001 101111011001 11011001001 11001011001 011111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, whistle, his, for, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word old at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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