This is an analysis of the poem Eight Balloons that begins with:
Eight balloons no one was buyin'
All broke loose one afternoon....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbbbbbbXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 1111101 1010101 10111100 11101011 11111011 1101001011 1101001011 110111011 1101001011 11100100011 1101101111 10111110 11110111 1011101 110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; one, pop, to, they, and, free are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pop is repeated).
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- summary of Eight Balloons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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