This is an analysis of the poem To The Terrestrial Globe that begins with:
Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAbcccDA AeAefffDAXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 110101 11 11000101 11110111 111101001 11110101 1011 11 111111 110101 11 01111101 01110101 01110111 11110101 1011 11 011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; roll, on, what, though, i, it's, true are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, roll, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word roll 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 on is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word on at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of To The Terrestrial Globe;
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