This is an analysis of the poem A Lamentable Ballad Of The Lady's Fall. To The Tune Of In Pescod Time that begins with:

Marke well my heavy, dolefull tale,
You loyall lovers all,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaXcXc badababX eXXfbeXe XXfeXdeX XXfgXfhf ijXXgXcX ekgkebXX heiebjlj XieimXeX XcXXXXXe hXXXXXlX Xbibjlbl eXhXfjXX eXijbXaX XXdXXbbXXXXXckbX XebemfXf lXXiXldlXakhkiaia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,16,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101001 110101 11001011 010101 11111111 010101 11010100 011101 11011101 110000 11010001 110001 11010101 01111 01011101 010101 1101001001 01011 01010110 010101 11000101 111111 11110101 110101 10010100 011010 11001101 110101 10110110 111011 01110111 111111 110101011 010101 10100101 111111 11110111 111101 11110001 010101 11110100 11011011 010011010 0111011 10101101 110101 10110111 1101100 101101011 111101 11111011 110111 11110001 110101 11000111 1011010 11110111 101101 11011001 110111 11110101 101101 11111111 110101 11110101 110101 11010101 1000101 0111101 111001 11011101 1111010 110111111 011111 10110111 1011110 10011101 11010 111101010 101101 1101111 110101 010111010 101101 11010110 110101 11010111 110101 10111110 010101 10111101 110011 11101101 100011 11101101 111101 11110101 001110 011100101 111110 11011101 1100101 11111101 01001110 1101001001 1001110 11100101 11111 00111111 0100101 110101101 110101 1110101 111011 11010101 011101 111111010 1100101 11101101 111101 11011101 010111 101101001 110111 11110111 111101 010011111 1111110 01011001 110101 10111101 010101 01010101 010101 0101011 011101 11010111 1001010 11110110 111001 01000111 011011 11010001 111111 1101101 0100101 10010011 110101 11010100 110111 11011001 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, her, with, thy, of are repeated.

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

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

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