This is an analysis of the poem A Rolling Stone that begins with:
There's sunshine in the heart of me,
My blood sings in the breeze;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacA dedefafa dgdgbaga hdhdijij gklkmlmX Xmnmmgmg agagXaXa lmamaadddAXanaaagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100101 111001 01010101 010001 11010100 110111 01000100 010111 1111010111 1110001001 11110100111 01101001 111011111 1111101 010010101 1010001 011101101 0110110 011010001 0110001 110010111 011111 011111101 10110111 011100101 011101 011011101 010111 011101111 010101 110101100 111111 011111001 0101001 011110101 00111001 0110110001 0101011 011100111 1010110 011110111 001001001 001010010 001001001 0011100101 00100101 1111011001 1110101 01010111 00111001 010010111 110111 010110101 111101 111100101 110101 001010111 1101101 1111110101 110101 001000111 0100111 110101101 110100111 11110101 010111 110011101 010100 110011101 011001 010010101 110111 11011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, to, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, from, and are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Rolling Stone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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