This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Dead Ladies that begins with:
Nay, tell me now in what strange air
The Roman Flora dwells to-day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababbcbC ababbcbC X bcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01010101 11000111 10011101 110100101 11110101 1001101001 11100111 1011011 11100101 11011101 01110101 11011101 100100111 0111001001 11100111 11110101 00110101 110111001 101100111 01110001 0111101 10111111 11100111 10 11011111 11010101 110101011 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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