This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Blind Love that begins with:
Who have loved and ceased to love, forget
That ever they loved in their lives, they say;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaaB abaXbaaB ababbaaB X XbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101 1101101111 1001001011 1010111101 1001011001 011110111 1101111111 11100111101 1101100101 11001001011 101101101 001001110 111100111 1111001101 111101101 11100111101 1111110101 110011111 1100101101 110111101 11101011001 101111101 00100110100 11100111101 10 110101100 111111111 110100101 11100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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, our, must, of, or, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word must is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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