This is an analysis of the poem Double Ballade On The Nothingness Of Things that begins with:
The big teetotum twirls,
And epochs wax and wane ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbccdXdX abXbbccdadA abXbbcdXdX XbXbbccdXdA abXbbccdXdX abXbbccdXdX XccXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,10,11,11,11,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 110111 110111 100111 010111 110101 010100 110111 01010100 100011 1010001000 011101 111111 1101001 110101 111111 011111 010101 110111 11010100 110101 11000100 110111 110001 1100010 111111 110111 110111 110111 11010000 010101 1010001000 110111 111101 011011 110101 101101 100101 110101 1101001 11101000 1101001 11000100 011111 111111 1100111 110111 101101 111111 110111 110111 110011000 010101 1010001000 100111 1001001 111111 010111 000101 111111 111111 101101 11011000 100111 1010001000 10 111101 100101 11011000 110101 110101 1010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, or, we, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, we, for, one are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word vanities at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase curls connects the lines.
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