This is an analysis of the poem Baburam The Snake Charmer that begins with:
Hullo, there Baburam – what have you got in there?
Snakes? Aha – and do you think there’s one that youcould spare...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcd bbXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100111101 11111111011101 11111011111110 011110111101001 111010111 1101110 1011101 1111110 111010110101 01111101010111 11110101111011 11111100111110 010010010001001011001010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; you, there, or, ones, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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