This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of One-Eyed Mike that begins with:
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye,
As I smoked my pipe in the camp-fire light, and the Glories swept the sky;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbcc ddee ffgg hhii iijj hhbb kkll iill aaXl ddXX mmiX hhmmXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00011110110100101 111110011011010101 1010111111010010011 0111111011110101 11111110110100111 110111110111101111 11101001010011101 1111111001111101 10101001010110111 111111111010101 111111111011011 110001111111111 111111010100101 011110101110110 00101111110011101 11101110111100101 1010110101010101 11111111110101101 11111110011110101 0111001011010101 1111111001011101 10101011011010101 110011101110101 11011010010010101 1110111101110101 01011010110101001 0101001010110101 010111011100101 1101001011110101 011111111110101 00101101010110101 01011111111101 0101001011011111 0100100101111101 00101001010100011 11111011111110001 101010111011101 11111111110101 00111001011110111 11111110011011101 10101111111111101 101111111111111 11111011111101000 11011011110101001 10111001011011001 11101101011110111 101111110110111100 1101111111100101 01110010111010001 01110010111010001 0111101011110101 01011101111111 1111110110100100101 110111010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, he, me, there, of, it, to, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word feet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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