This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Footmen that begins with:
Now what in the name of the sun and the stars
Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb aX aa cc aa dd ee ff gg aa bX hh dX ff aa XX aa cc aX ii jj ff iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001101 001000101001 11111101011 111001011101 0110010010110 110110011110 11101111101 11100101001 001001100001 11101111001 110110111010 011010010010 111101111010 1010010001110 1110101011 01001011101 01101101001 101001011001 110111001011 111001111101 101101111010 011111010010 011001101011 00100111101 11111101001 01101011011 1010101100100 101111011110101 010011110010 011010110010 010110111010 110111101110 001011010000 111011111101 10011001111 11101000111 110010110010 111011110010 110110110110 11011111110 11001111001 11001111011 101001011011 01111011001 10100111011 01001011101 10001101001 111101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his are repeated.
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