This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of Sleep that begins with:
The hours are passing slow,
I hear their weary tread... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacac ababXaXacaC aXaXbabacaC XXbacbaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 111101 1001011 101101 111101 111111 011101 1100111 110001 110111 111111 111101 110101 110111 110111 111100 111011 0100110 010111 110111 111111 111111 111101 010110 011101 111100 010111 111111 110111 111101 110101 111111 111111 10 110101 110111 110111 100101 110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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