This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Death that begins with:
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,
Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXacdac beeXceacea fggfhidhXd gjjgbikXik XcceailaXl feefghagha lggldlhdlh gggggaggag XeeihhkXhk fdXXghagha aaaaXcXcXedfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111001 1010010101 010101 1011111111 01010010100 1111010101 010101 11011100101 1101010101 1101110111 1111010101 1101011001 111111 1101111100 1101110100 11011000101 110001 0101011101 0100010111 1111010001 11110010001 1111110101 111011 0111011101 0101010110 11110111100 110101 1111111001 0011111100 110100100101 1111100111 1100011111 111101 0101011101 11010101101 0111010110 101100 01010101100 1101111100 11110110101 0101001100 0101010101 110111 11011110111 1101011101 1111010110 110011 1101000101 110110110 0101111111 0111011111 1111011101 1111001 11001111111 0101101100 1011010101 1010111 11110001101 1100100101100 1111001101 10111001101 11010101001 110111 1111000101 11001101100 10101110101 1101101 1111110101 1101010101 11111101001 11101110101 1101011111 111111 1011011111 1111000111 0111110101 111111 0101000101 1111010011 0101110101 1111110101 1101010001 111111 10001110100 10101011011 1011110011110 1010101 1111010100 1011110101 1111110101 1001110001 1101010101 011100 0100010100 0100010001 0001111101 110101 1111100111 1101011100 1101010101 1101010011 11010110101 110011 1101110101 11111100001 1111001111 1111101100 11101011101 0011010 1101110111 1111001110 110010 111101110 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length 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, for, her, of, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words three, o, one, whose, even, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words o, ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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