This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Bolivar that begins with:
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again,
Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcdeebb bfbfggbb hhXhggbb gigiaabb gbgbffXb jjbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110101 101010111101 101010111101 111010010101 111010010101 1110100011110 111010010101 1011101001110 100010111111 101011010101 101010110101 111010010101 111011111111 11111011111 101111110111 1010110011101 101010110101 1010101101001 101010110101 1110010010101 101110110111 1010011101101 101110110101 101110110101 101010110101 111011110111 111110100101 111010010101 101110110001 111111110111 101011110101 101111110111 101110110101 101010111101 1001010110111 111010010101 11101011101 101110010111 111011110101 100010010001 101011110101 1001110110101 1010101101010 111010110101 101110110101 01111011011 101010110101 1011001100101 101010110101 101010111101 101010110101 01101000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, sunderland, put, by, us, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bay at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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