This is an analysis of Baseball Canto by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
reading Ezra Pound,…
Browse poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXcbdccefghXXbhfcdXgcfcXhecibidXahXbXfaaaXdcfe
- Stanza lengths: 48,
- Metre: 1011100011011 10101 110111001101110 101001000110 101000100010 10101010101 11010111010010 01101011100110 01010110110 10111011010111110 1111011 101111111000010110 11101 1001011111010100 01100101111 11010101 0010001 10111111011000111 11010001 01010011101101 1111010101010 11011111010110 001111101 10111011001011 110110 10010011100 11101010010 111111111 1101010 11010000101100 1010101101 111010111101100 10101101101010 1110011 100101011001 111011101 1111110 1110111 11101110 0010010100 111100111010 1010101001001 0101010 101111101 0110101010110 001001101010 0010001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 47
Repeated words/phrases
and, their, tito, out, rounds
Anaphora
with, and, in
