This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of The Royal Game Of Golf that begins with:
There are laddies will drive ye a ba'
To the burn frae the farthermost tee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXabXB caXaabaB caXaabaB XXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001101 001101001 111011001 11101101 111001101 111111101 10111111 111001101 01111111 111001011 001011110 101101011 101011101 011011011 101101011 111001101 111001101 111101101 111001101 111111111 111101111 111101111 11011001 111001101 10 11101001 11111111 101101110 111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; ye, and, i, play'd, hae are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, tak', i, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word green at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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