This is an analysis of the poem The More Modern Ballad Of Chevy Chace that begins with:
God prosper long our noble king,
Our liffes and safetyes all;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe Xfgf heie cjjj cjXX dkjX cdjX gkkk gfgf jkjX iXde ijXj XXcX dhjh ildX Xcmc eXhX feke cXXe eeje lbdb XXXX Xici jddd eccX gnjn jccc eXgc mcdc ejlj ccdc eXkk jjcj jbdX XXea XejX dXjX dnjn gbcX fcoc cfjX geXX cjcj bXdX jkck eXcd ceae XXdX edbd dddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11011001 01010110 010101 01010111 1010101 01111010 010011 011001000 010101 01000101 110101 01010101 011101 110010101 010111 111010011 110101 010101101 000101 00110111 110101 11110101 011110 01010101 010111 11110101 111010 11011111 1101101 11010101 010110 01110101 110001 11110101 110101 01110101 01101 10110111 110101 11000101 010101 1111010 010111 10111111 110111 01011100 1001001 110110101 010101 110101010 110011 11010100 1101010 111110101 111101 11011100 110101 110111001 010101 11001111 101100 11010111 0101010 101010111 110101 11000100 110111 11111111 111101 10110111 1111110 01110101 110101 11111001 111111 10111101 110101 11010101 110101 1110111 101111 111111011 110111 11110100 111001 10011101 111111 11110101 1111100 101110101 110010 11010101 1000101 11111101 0101111 11110111 111101 1111011000 1101001 11011111 1111001 111100111 110111 11010111 110011 101101001 111111 110110101 110110 11010101 011101 01110101 110111 11010111 1111001 01010100 1111001 11110110 110111 11011101 111111 111101010 111101 11111101 110111 110010100 110101 11010101 111101 010110011 110111 111111001 1100011 11011111 11011 11101101 010101 01011101 110101 11110101 111011 1111011 111101 11010101 110101 11011001 110101 110110101 110111 10110101 1101110 01111101 101101 111010001 01111 11011111 1111011 11110111 110111 110110101 011101 11110111 111111 11110111 010111 1101011 1011010 01010111 1110101 11010101 01011 11100111 100111 11010101 110101 11010101 011111 111010101 1101001 010010111 100101 01110101 011111 11011101 110111 11010101 0101011 11011001 100101 11000111 100111 0111100 110111 01111101 001111 01010101 110001 11110101 010111 011010111 110100 11010111 111110 10111111 110001 01110111 110001 110001111 1101010 11010101 1101010 101010111 11100 110101001 111101 110100101 010111 11011101 11111 10111011 0010101 010101010 110101 00110110 111101 01010101 100111 110101001 110010 111101010 111110 11010101 110001 11010101 110101 0101101000 110101 11101010 101101 110101101 101101 11110101 010111 11001101 011101 11001000 110101 11001111 1001101 11110111 1101011 11111101 110101 10100101 11101010 01110101 101100 01110101 0100110 10010101 010101 1100100101 1101010 11111101 01111 11111101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 67
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 268
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, i, ', and, they, my, sir are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, 'and, that, while, as, like, sir, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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