This is an analysis of the poem The Recruit's Ball that begins with:
Fiddler loquitur
Heigho, fiddlestick, fiddlestick, fiddlestick,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XABacBBA XABadeBBA EEfEEf ggdg dDXD ddcD ddad ccXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,9,6,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 10100100100 1010010101 1101011010 100111101 111111011 11010 11010 1110101101 10100100100 1010010101 1101011010 10011111 1111011111 11111011 11010 11010 1110101101 11010 11010 1101010110100 11010 11010 1101010110100 11111 11111 111111 11111 1111 11111 111111 11111 11011 11011 110101 11111 11011 11011 111001 11011 1111 1111 101101 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; fiddlestick, johnny, there, ho, boys, deuce, take, fiddle, here, goes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words heigho, oh, ho, deuce, here, there are repeated.
The author used the same word heigho at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines johnny, fiddle, boy, boys are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ring, boys at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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