This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Of The Southern Cross that begins with:
Fair islands of the silver fleece,
Hoards of unsunned, uncounted gold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabA abaXbabA abXbXabA X baXa
- 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: 11000101 101001101 11010101 11101101 11011101 11010111 11110111 11000101 11110101 11010001 11111101 111101000 11110101 010101001 11010101 11000101 110010111 11111101 11010001 111000111 110101100 11110101 11111101 11000101 10 010011101 110111101 110101010 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, our, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, our are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word cross at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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