This is an analysis of the poem Ballad that begins with:
Round youthful Henry's restless bed
His weeping friends and parents pressed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac acac dede fgfX bcbc ghghXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 01011101 11110101 11111101 1100111010 11011101 110011101 11010111 010101001 01010111 1011111011 101111101 100011111 111110101 11010101 11110101 101111111 01010101 01111111 1101111100 11110101 11110101 01011111 11110101 11010111 01010101 11010101 110101001 01011101 110111010 101110011001 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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