This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Burdens that begins with:
A Ballad of Burdens
The burden of fair women. Vain delight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccdcD efXffdfD gXgccecD ehXXhdhD cgcgXegD ciciieiD fafaadaD babaaXaD bbbbbdbD X XdXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010 0100110101 1111011101 1100111111 1011111111 1111111101 11001101110 1111110101 000101001010 0100110001 0100110110 0101110110 100101110 01000110100 01111100110 1111010101 000101001010 0100110111 1011111100 1101111111 0011111111 0011111110 11111101110 1011000101 000101001010 0100110111 1011010111 1111101010100 111110101010 0101110111 11010111010 111101100111 000101001010 0100110111 1101010101 1101111110 11110110001 111101010110 11010111101 1101111101 000101001010 0100110011 11111111011 1111110111 11111101000 1111011101 110101011001 101100101001 000101001010 01001101001 1111010101 0100110100 1100010100 0111010111 01111001010 1101010100 000101001010 0100110101 1101010101 1001000111 1111010101 1110110101 1011010110 1111110101 000101001010 0100110111 0111010101 11010101011 1101110111 1101110101 110110100010 11011010001 000101001010 10 1011110100 11010111010 1101110101 000101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, of, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, where are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word desire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase threescore connects the lines.
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