This is an analysis of the poem Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad On The New Ovid's Metamorphosis that begins with:
Ye Lords and Commons, Men of Wit,
And Pleasure about Town; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcb deXe afXX gdgd hchc iaia abab bhbX ajah dfdf eded jXjb kXkd bXbX khkh bjbh cdXe XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 110011 10110111 010101 01010101 1111010 10010111 1100001 11010101 110001 110110010 010001 11010101 0101010 01010110 011101 11110101 1101110 01110001 0101010 11011100 11001110 11011100 0101010 011101001 0100101 01010101 110101 11110111 110111 10011101 101101 01011101 1101110 01110111 1101110 11011101 1111111 10011011 0101110 11010101 1101110 11010111 0101010 111101011 110111 11110111 111101 11001111 1101110 11011101 11011101 11010101 1101100 11110101 1111110 11110101 1100110 10110010 11101010 10011101 11010010 11010101 1011110 11011111 1111011 11111111 1101010 11011101 1101110 10110110 0110100 11010011 1101110 111111010 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, nor, with, as, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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