This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Touch-The-Button Nell that begins with:
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame,
The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the sisterhood of shame....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeX ffddgg hhiX gXiX gggg XjiX kklX aagg mmff mmff cccc nnXb ggmX ggjj eebb iXcc nngg ggff ffiX aakX llff ggmm XXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101010101 01111111010001 11011101111110 01110001010001 01011101110101 11110101010101 011100011101001 11010111110101 11010101010001 01010000101110100 110101001010111 01011100110101 11011101010101 11110101111101 01010101011001 11010100110101 01010101111011 1101010000010101 110111110111 11110101110100 1010100110110101 1010111010101010 11000101010101 1011111010110100 11001110011100101 01110001010111 11000101010101 11010011010101 1011111011101111100 101111100111011011 11111101111011 1111010100110100 10110110111011111 11110101111101 111110111110101 010111110101110 11010011110101 111101110010101 11010111010101 11110101010101 11110001010101 11111101110101 01100101110111 11010101011110 11110011111111 11000101010101 11000101111101 11010101010110 01110101011101 01110111011101 1111010110100101 11110111010101 101110101111111 11111111111111 110101011111110 10111010111010101 101111111111001 1111110001111101 11111111111101 110111011110010 01111101110101 01000101111101 11111111010111 01110101110101 110100101110101 10101111011110011 000101111100111 11110101010001 111100001010111 01011101110100 01111101110101 01010100110101 01010101110101 010000101110101 01010001010101 01010101110101 10010111100111 11010100010100 110111011100101 11001101111110 111101011110101 1111110101101 110110101010101 11010001010100 1101011010111001 11011101111111 1111111111111 110111101111010 101110011001101101 01101100010101 11010101010101 11010100010110 01111111111101 01111001010111 11011011010111 01010001111001 11010101110001 11010101011001 11110101010101 11010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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, her, he, waltzed, i, you, love, want, my, they, it, me, to, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, i, and, he, the, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words dooleyvitch, lamore at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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