Ballades Iii - Of Blue China by Andrew Lang: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ballades Iii - Of Blue China that begins with:

THERE’S a joy without canker or cark,
There ’s a pleasure eternally new, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaacaCbabaacaC babaacaC X acXC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011011 1101001001 1001101101 010111011 10101001 011101001 111001011 001001001 11011101 0010010001 11011001 01101101 11011111 101001101 11101001 001001001 1101001001 001101101 1010100001 11101001 11101001 101001111 1001101001 001001001 10 11111001 11011101 101101001 001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, it, d, they, and, of, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, they are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word hwang at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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