This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Northern Lights that begins with:
One of the Down and Out--that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!
Stare and shrink--say! you wouldn't think that I was a millionaire....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgg hhiXjj jXkkjj Xlhhlleehhkkjjii kkkXlljXeecXjj eemmeeeellhhbbcc eeXleeii ggbbkkkk kkaaccnnkkbb llhXff gXeelXaakk llccffeejjaa Xacckkhhll aahhgg iicckkkkkk cceeggjjffllkkecXffcchhaakkhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,6,16,14,16,8,8,12,6,10,12,10,6,10,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011111111111 111111011110101 11110111100111 110101111100101 100101010101101 010010101100101 11110010111111111 0100101010010111 1111101111101001 0101111111100001 111011111101101 1101001011111101 1100101001010101 0010111111110101 01001001011010101 101001010011010101 10011101110101 101001111011010101100 1111001001111111 11001001111111111 1100101011011111 011001101111010011100 1101111111010101 111110101111101 10101110110101001 101101101111011111 10111111010001000 1111001011010111 1000100101000001 101001010001001 10101111000010001 1111111011110101 101001011101100111 11101011011110101 1011101000101001 11101010011111101 011101010010101 1101110011101111 101111011110101 10011010110100111 1111101011110111 1111111101110101 010111010010111 0011111011111011 111101001011010111 100111111100010 111111111010101 1111010110111010101 001011111111101 11111010111111110 111111010110101 111011001011010001 10110011111100101 101001010111001010 1111111111010101 10101101011110111 110101111100101 10010001100101 010101111011101 0101101011101001 11011110110010111 11110101111101 111111010100111 110100101010111 10101101010110101 111110111110101 1101101111100110 110110111111101 10110101110101 110010111100101 0111011010110101 1111011100101101 1111100101111111 1110101111110111 110101101010100 1001110110101 0111101011010111 1101001011011001 101101011011101 1110101101011101 101111111100111 1111101010010101 111100101110111 11110011011100101 1101000011011101 01101010110110101 011111111011011 110111101100111 10101011011110111 1011111111011001 101110101010111 111000010111100101 10101001010010101 10111100101101 01011010101001001 100101010010101 10010111101001 101001011010001 101111110111001 11010101000101001 11110111110101001 110101110100101 10110101011011101 11001110111010101 10101001011010111 111101010010101 1010101000100101 101011111000110 11111111110111001 11110101011110101 01110110111111 1111101001111010 1111111010111101 011011111100111001 111111111110001 11110101110010111 11111001011111001 101110111110101 111111101100101 10101001011100101 111110101100101 11111011000010111 1101001011101101 110010111101101 1101010101101101 111100101100101 0101111010110101 01101011110101001 1101001111110011 10101101011110101 1100101011011101 10111101111010101 1100100011111101 11111101011110110 110100111111001 10111101011111101 1110010010111111101 101101111111111 110111001111101 1110111101111111 11110111111001011 1010111011010100 1101111111011011 001001111110101 11010010111011 1100010010010101 010101001101001 1110101011010001 01010100110101 101010110010001 11011001110111 1111001011010101 1101110111010111 11101001111101101 100101111110101 111010010111110011 11001011110010001 010000101110011 11111101100101 11011011010010101 1111101011110101 110101110111110101 01111101011000101 010111100110011 1011101111111001 1111101111111101 110101011101001 0010100101101001001 010100101111001 1101111110011111 11101011010010111 1110011001111101 1111110111110101 0010100101111100 10101001111111101 111010010100100001 1011111011010101 1111010111110101 1101111011011111 1010110111101001 10100111111111 11111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 182
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (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; of, and, stare, it's, as, my, i, no, man, we, where, by, to, you, it, with, he, in, they, day, that, have, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'll, we, and, the, by, it, when, they, in are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stare connects the lines.
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