This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Made In The Hot Weather that begins with:
Fountains that frisk and sprinkle
The moss they overspill;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabbcXcC aaaaabbXcXC XaaaabbcXcC X cXccC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 011100 110101 010101 001101 111001 0101001 010111 110100 011101 011101 0111010 100101 1001010 101110 010111 010001 100001 010101 110110 110101 011101 1101100 111101 0101010 010111 0100101 110111 011101 0100101 111100 010111 011101 10 1101101 100111 111101 110101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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