This is an analysis of the poem The Challenge: A Court Ballad that begins with:
I.
To one fair lady out of Court,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcccD X ececXXD XfgfggXD XchchiiD acacabbD aaccaaD XjgjgeeD XhkhkhhD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,7,8,8,8,7,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110101 111100 11011101 111111 111101010 010010110 00111 1 11000111 110101 10110111 110101 11010101 11010110 00111 1 11011101 1101010 01110111 11001011 0101110100 1101010100 00111 1 01111101 1101010 11001111 1111010 01010111 11110111 00111 1 01111101 0100111 11111111 011111 010111110 010111110 00111 1 11010111 011101 010011 11111101 11111101 00111 1 11110101 1101010 10101101 1011010 11001111 01011111 00111 1 11111101 1101110 11110101 0101110 010100110 111111010 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word la at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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