This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Casey's Billy-Goat that begins with:
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat,"
And "Casey's Tabble Dote";...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX bbbbcdXd eaeaefef egeghbXb eieiagag hiXXcXcf XfXXefXf dXXXcjcj adadkeke likibebe lblbkdkd hmhmhfhfXkakaeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001010 11001100 1101 0101 01001010 110101011101010 01010101010001 110111001100010 110001001010101 1101010001010010 01000101010111 11011101010010 11010101010111 110101010101010 110010111010101 110101011101010 01011101010001 1100111111101010 0101010111011 110101111100010 101110101110101 110101000111010 11011101111101 111101010100010 11011101110011 1100111010111010 01010111010001 0111010110101010 11011111010101 110101110111110 11011111010101 110101110101010 11101101010010 110101011101011 1110011101110111 1010101010101011 111010101110001 10001010010101010 001010101110101 10110011011111010 11101110111010100 10111110010101010 111010101010101 011111011101010 111010101010101 10101010100111101 111110101110001 1011101001100100 11101011101010100 1110111100101010 111010101111101 1010011010101000 101000100010001 110111011101110 10001100010010 11010100010110 001000100010010 111101001001010 11010100010101 110111010101010 101011101010111 11110100101010011 10010100010101 110101010101111 101011100010101 101101100101010 11010100011101 1010101000100010 0010001001101001 111111010100010 111110101110101 111110101010110 11010111010011 111101111101010 11001101110111 010101011100010 11011100010101 010111011111110 101010101110101 100101010100010 10110111110001 1100110011101010 11011100010101 1110101001101010 111011101110101 1111011010101010 111010101010001 1110111011111110 11001101010011 1010011010101110 11010110011101 110101000100010 11110101110111 110011011111010 101010101111011 1110101000101010 101010101010111 1101111010101010 01110111101101 011101111100010 11010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, that, as, it, he, to, his, now, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, now, he, can are repeated.
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