This is an analysis of the poem Ballades V - Of His Choice Of A Sepulchre that begins with:
HERE I ’d come when weariest!
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaaB bbaXaB aabXaB XXbaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 101 00101010 1010101 101 10111110 10111110 0010 1010101 1011101 111 10111110 11111011 001 11101010 1110010 111 10111110 10 11101110 1100101 111 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hover at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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