This is an analysis of the poem The Juggler's Song that begins with:
When the drums begin to beat
Down the street,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdddee dXdX bbddddbbXdd fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,4,11,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 101 10111110 10110111 1011101 1011101 1011111 1011111 1011111 0010111 110111 1011001 1111111 1111111 1110101 1011011 001 1011101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1011011 1010101 10100100 1010101 11101001 10111010 1111111 10111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, me, to, and, again, by, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, tell, by are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
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- summary of The Juggler's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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