This is an analysis of the poem A Newe Ballade Made Of Thomas Crumwel, Called Trolle On Away that begins with:

Trolle on away, trolle on awaye,
Synge heave and howe rombelowe trolle on away....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bXbA cccA XXXA XXXA cccA dXXA XXXA XXXA XXXA XeeA bXbA XXXA eeeA XXXA fXfA ddXAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 11111001101 111101011 011101010 111010101 11101 110100011 11011111001 1100111001 11101 111101011 110011111 100101011001 11101 1111110110 11001010010 1011111010 11101 111101101 1001010011 1011010001 11101 111101010 10011101100 11101110101 11101 111101100 1111111100 11110110100 11101 110110111 11110100 10101111000 11101 11100011 100111001 101111001 11101 11000110000 110110111 1110111101 11101 011000101111 10011100 1111010101 11101 11010011 11010100 111110111 11101 111111111 101101101101 10111001001 11101 110111101 01110101 101111101 11101 11111111 11110111 10111011 11101 1111001010 111011010 011100110 11101 1111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; trolle, on, one, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words both, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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