This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Bouillabaisse that begins with:
A street there is in Paris famous,
For which no rhyme our language yields, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcacX bdbdXaeX bXbaeafX bgbghahX iXiXiXXX iXXXeafX bjbjXakX kekebabX lmlmfafX fefenono mbmbbabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001010 11111101 110101010 01100101 111111110 11010001 010111010 01010100 010001010 01011111 110011010 11010111 111101010 11010111 11111110 01110100 0101110011 11010010 1111010010 11010101 110011010 11010101 110111010 11110100 110001110 11010101 0101110 110010101 01101110 11010110 111101110 11111100 110101110 10111011 010111010 100101001 100101110 11011011 10010101101 111111001 10110101010 11011111 1100101111 01000101 111011110 11010101 110101010 010011000 110101010 01010001 1101001010 01111111 111111010 11010111 110101110 11111100 111101010 01011101 110101010 11000011 011101110 11001101 010111110 11011100 111101010 11010101 110101010 11110001 110101010 01011101 111101010 11110100 111101110 11100111 111111010 00111101 011111011 01111101 110111011 11110111 110101010 11011101 110101110 01000111 1001100010 11111111 0101100010 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, or, and, ', with, there's, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words bouillabaisse, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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