This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Amoureuse that begins with:
Not Jason nor Medea wise,
I crave to see, nor win much lore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbXbC ababbXbC abXbbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011111 11010100 110111110 01110101 11110100 11101111 01110101 10110111 00010101 11110011 11111111 01010111 1111001 111100111 01110101 11110011 11110101 11100100 10011101 1101101 01100111 11111111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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